At a sparrow’s urging, a young girl feels a mysterious trembling in her arms, a lightness in her feet, a longing to be free. Her mother tells her that her Granny Liza experienced the same, as did many of their people before her. Perhaps it’s time, Mama says, to slip the bonds of earth and join the journey started long ago. To hold each other tight and rise.

The song this book is based on was written from the author's remembering of The People Could Fly, a collection of African folktales collected and retold by Virginia Hamilton.

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