 which is a kind of mutual seeing. Hazel Carby once said I was a forensic etymologist, not entomologist, a forensic etymologist, and I embraced that. I wanted to see, you know, what happens if you keep all of these meanings operative? What does it allow to happen? Near the beginning of the book, you write, quote, I wanted to write about silences and terror and acts that hover over generations, over centuries. I began by writing about my mother and grandmother.