Robbed of a Father, Parented by Books
Library in Loco Parentis. Reviewing Farah Jasmine Griffin’s ‘Read Until You Understand’
As a little black girl readies for school one morning, her father stops and hands her two books. She expects to see him in his welder’s clothes for work—doesn’t expect to see him at all, actually. Shouldn’t he be on the job? Instead, there he is in a dress shirt and slacks, placing a pair of books in her hands.
One of the two sports a cover with a band o…
