Manimal Woe

Fanny Howes Manimal Woe maps the intersection between history and family as few books have. Through poetry prose and primary sources Howe invites us on a journey with the spirit of her father Civil Rights lawyer and professor Mark DeWolfe Howe who died suddenly in 1967. The past both personal and historical is utterly present yet just out of reach. From her ancestors dark legacy as slave traders to her fathers work during the Civil Rights era to her own interracial marriage and family Fanny Howe delves deep into the heart of the mysterious and the mystical and emerges with the questions that so rarely find their way to us.