Tales of a river deity with Donna Bailey Nurse

The Next Chapter columnist Donna Bailey Nurse, a Toronto-based writer and literary critic is a longtime champion of Black women writers. 

She stopped by The Next Chapter to recommend two novels that compliment each other, one older and one recent: Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother and Zalika Reid-Benta's River Mumma.

"The reason that I'm thinking that this book [River Mumma] is similar to The Autobiography of My Mother is the figure of the river deity," she told The Next Chapter's Ryan B. Patrick. "Although Jamaica Kincaid is Antiguan and Zalika Reid-Benta is of Jamaican heritage, it's the same sort of mythological figure."