by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany (with Amy Hill Hearth), Kodansha America, 210 pages.

Some of Sarah and Bessie Delany’s recollections of their Southern girlhoods and seventy-five independent years in New York City first appeared in our October issue. The full volume contains more adventures from throughout their lives, including a near run-in with the Ku Klux Klan on Long Island, and offers their views on current politics. Bessie predicts “there will be a white woman President before there is a Negro President. And if a Negro is elected President? That person will be a Negro woman.”