Joy Takes Root Cultural Heritage Fiction But art remained in Ernie’s

But art remained in Ernie’s heart and followed him through high school

traces an increasingly audacious commitment to exploring the unknowable

and always brutally honest insights on how living an authentic life is the quickest path to success

from the wage gap to biases and micro-aggressions

and here they pay it forward to empower readers with a reminder that perfect really isn't all that

Joy Takes Root Cultural Heritage Fiction But art remained in Ernie’sIn her grandmother's garden, a young Black girl learns about mindfulness and herbal medicine in this soothing intergenerational story about our connection to nature. It's Joy's first summer in her grandmother's South Carolina gardena rite of passage. In the midst of okra, spinach, and strawberries, Grammy teaches Joy that plants are friends with many uses. Herbs, for example, can be turned into medicine. There in Grammy's abundant backyard, Joy learns