PositiveThe New RepublicIf Mann wants her book to be about something other than the controversy that has dogged her, she is still at pains to explain her motivations: the manner in which she involved her children in the creation and distribution of those images and their comprehension of the distinction between the art and their own bodies and lives ... Mann’s memoir, focused as it is on this place, tries to reckon with her own role within this charged historical nexus ... These remembrances could be their own genre for a generation of white Southerners, the cruel conventions that weren’t questioned, the casual disregard for dignity, what Mann sums up as \'our blindness and our silence.\'
