Jodi M. Savage

“Our mothers are our first place of refuge. To call out for one’s dead mother is the pinnacle of helplessness and despair. It means you know that no one and nothing else can save you. Your screams are a prayer that Momma will move mountains and intervene, even from beyond this world.”
― Jodi M. Savage, The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind – A Searing and Empathetic Black Woman's Essay Collection on Grief, Trauma, and the Humor That Survives