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I have wanted to write this book for as long as I can remember because I loved hearing stories my mother told me about her family, and I understood the importance of preserving them. Over the years, as my mother shared her memories, my sister-in-law Nancy and I recorded them on cassette tapes and tucked them away for safekeeping. We had no plans to do anything with the recordings except play them for our children someday.
But after my mother passed away in 2013, I knew I could not let her family history die with her. Two years ago, I began transcribing hours of conversations that Nancy or I had with my mother. With court documents, ancestry records, family members’ interviews, and my mother’s written words, I slowly began to weave the narrative that is now The Women of the Wind.
As I transcribed these words my mother spoke twenty years ago: “I realize now that my memories and Aunt Bell’s memories may pass down to generations to come, your children’s children, and their children and on because that’s a keepsake,” I thought: I will pass down your keepsake, Mama.
Angela Gail Griffin
Reviewed by Emma Megan for Readers' Favorite
Women of the Wind tells a fascinating and heartbreaking true story of neglect, abandonment, abuse, and abduction. Angela Gail Griffin shares her mother's family's childhood memories and tales that she passed down to her. The recollections span three generations of women intertwined with 19th- and 20th-century Georgia history. Mildred May Robinson, Angela's grandmother, was a neglected and unwanted child. When Mildred was a baby, her birth mother, Lula, did something unspeakable to her that no mother should ever do. Fortunately, a loving family rescued and adopted Mildred just in time and loved her as their own. This book is about Mildred's marriage to a horrible, abusive man and their children, who all fought for a better life. It's also about Mildred's birth mother, Lula, her life, and how the ill-treatment affected Mildred as an adult.
In Women of the Wind, Angela Gail Griffin paints a riveting portrait of three generations of remarkable women, packed with thirty-two beautiful photographs. It's a well-researched book and a must-read for everyone. It follows the women through their lives together, through hard times and suffering, revealing their strength and resilience. Angela Gail Griffin has amazingly pieced together personal and thought-provoking stories that will move, shock, and inspire you. By rewriting her great-grandmother's history, the author lets you decide if Lula deserves forgiveness for what she did to Mildred. This book is a masterpiece, showing how some women survived hardships with their humanity intact and excelled in life. I recommend this book to all mothers, as it's also about how a mother's love saved all her daughters.
