Morgan Jerkins is the New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing. She is a Senior Editor at Zora Magazine a division of Medium, whose work has been featured in The New Yorker, Vogue, the New York Times, The Atlantic, Elle, Rolling Stone, Lenny, and BuzzFeed, among many others. She lives in New York.
"Caul Baby is a deeply inventive meditation on survival and
inheritance. Morgan writes about the intricacies of Black
motherhood in a way that is tender and at times, magic." — Raven
Leilani, New York Times bestselling author of Luster
“A debut novel that blends family drama with magic.” — Time
Magazine
“This magical novel brings together the weight of tradition and the
power of family.” — NBC News
“Caul Baby gave me chills almost every time I turned the page.
. . . The book traces a legacy of Black, female pain through the
somewhat softening lens of magical realism. It’s an unsparing take
on the ramifications of trauma on Black American women, and Jerkins
manages it as a spellbinding story, the farthest possible thing
from a lecture.” — Glamour
“A fascinating, of-the-moment story about the intersection of
motherhood, power, and community.” — Real Simple
“The astounding talent behind nonfiction must-reads This Will Be My
Undoing and Wandering in Strange Lands turns to fiction
with Caul Baby. . . . An exhilarating tale of family,
belonging, and bodies, this promises to be one of the most exciting
releases of the year.” — Elle
“Jerkins, a bestselling nonfiction writer, applies her scrupulous
prose and storytelling prowess to the realm of fiction in her
beguiling debut novel.” — Oprah Daily
“This engrossing story is rich with mystery, page-turning tension
and the powerful ways family can hold us even in toxic
circumstances.” — Good Housekeeping
Morgan Jerkins' fantastic, expansive novel of mothers and daughters
and Harlem, Caul Baby, is a meditation on the limits of
inheritance and legacy. It's also a love letter to a rapidly
changing neighborhood. — Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of Libertie and
We Love You, Charlie Freeman
“Excellent. . . . an audacious debut novel, telling a powerful
family tale that does not shy away from the dark reaches of
capitalism, greed, gentrification, tradition, and ownership. It is
a moving piece of fiction that showcases the very best of what the
author has learned from her previous work in nonfiction and
expounds on that foundation in a way that only someone as skilled
and multifaceted as Jerkins could pull off.” — Shondaland
“Jerkins’s incisive social commentary shines through in her fiction
debut Caul Baby. . . . Laced with generational pain and sprinkled
with magic, Caul Baby is a sweeping family drama with no
shortage of action. During a pandemic that has laid bare a nation’s
inequities, Jerkins’s work feels more relevant than ever. . . a
blazingly original debut.” — Chicago Review of Books
“A multilayered reflection of contemporary dilemmas with a touch of
magic realism. . . . Readers are taken through a spectrum of
emotions with a satisfying payoff. On the heels of her excellent
memoir Wandering in Strange Lands, Jerkins solidifies herself as
one of our guiding literary lights.” — Booklist (starred
review)
“Ambitious and unique. . . . Caul Baby is like nothing I’ve
read before. It has historical references but is overwhelmingly a
book of our time. It delivers a story that weaves the nuance of
Black womanhood with intergenerational struggles and triumphs and
the heartache of contemporary racial injustice.” — New York Journal
of Books
“An expansive, folklorish tale of two families—both headed by Black
matriarchs—that intertwine for over 20 years. . . . Caul
Baby hones in on the power of a healing legend in a community
systematically ignored and harmed by the medical establishment. . .
. Jerkins’ debut novel asks what it means to be a mother and
emphasizes that a community’s care for its own can be the most
radical form of love.” — Bust
“A decades-long exploration of the gentrification of Harlem, the
ethics of non-traditional family-making, the enduring power of
tradition and more.” — PureWow
"A captivating story on the bonds between mothers and daughters and
a powerful meditation on secrets, gentrification, family legacy,
and more. A must-read.?" — Hey Alma
"Rich. . . . Jerkins effectively blends folk legend with
contemporary details. . . It's vividly conceived, and the strong
plot will carry readers to the end." — Publishers Weekly
Wandering in Strange Lands: "Wandering in Strange Lands intertwines
segments of past and present travel, as a reminder that the past is
present in the U.S." — O, the Oprah Magazine
This Will Be My Undoing: “Without turning linguistic or lyrical
cartwheels, Jerkins lucidly articulates social dynamics that have
dictated the realities of American black women for centuries….
Indeed, [This Will Be My Undoing] is a book I wish everyone in this
country would read.” — New York Times Book Review
This Will Be My Undoing: “In Morgan Jerkins’s remarkable debut
essay collection, This Will Be My Undoing, she is a deft
cartographer of black girlhood and womanhood. From one essay to the
next, Jerkins weaves the personal with the public and political in
compelling, challenging ways. Her prodigious intellect and
curiosity are on full display throughout this outstanding
collection. The last line of the book reads, ‘You should’ve known I
was coming,’ and indeed, in this, too, Jerkins is prescient. With
this collection, she shows us that she is unforgettably here, a
writer to be reckoned with.” — Roxane Gay
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