Constructing a Nervous System

"Constructing a Nervous System" by Margo Jefferson is an intelligent, bold and luminescent memoir of the culture of 1950s America that shaped the author's view of the self, the female body, family, race and class.

Come along as Margo Jefferson looks back on her childhood and dissects how she as a young Black girl formed her view of the world based on the culture of the time.

Experience cultural analysis and honest memoirs of the author's childhood comes together in an eloquent work that dives into the importance the pioneering Black artists, novelists, dancers, athletes and Jazz and Blues singers had on a young generation.

"Constructing a Nervous System" is a uniquely constructed and told story of art, culture and identity, that varies from being a piece of arts writing and life writing in this stunning mixture of fiction, non-fiction, biography, poetry and criticism.

"Constructing a Nervous System" is written by Margo Jefferson, an influential American writer and academic, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1995. Margo Jefferson is well-known as the author of her critically acclaimed biographical memoir "Negroland" from 2015.