The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave BehindA Paperback OriginalReminiscent of The Year of Magical Thinking and Somebodys Daughter, a deeply empathetic and often humorous collection of essays that explore the authors ever changing relationships with her grandmother and mother, through sickness and health, as they experience the joys and challenges of Black American womanhood. Jodi M. Savage was raised in Brooklyn, New York, by her maternal grandmother. Her whip smart, charismatic mother