He's best-known for his children's books, which include "The Undefeated," for which he won a Caldecott Medal. Kwame Alexander's new memoir is called "Why Fathers Cry At Night," and it's told in the form of prose, poems, letters and recipes. His mother was an educator who became a principal. His father was a Baptist preacher of Black liberation theology who assigned books to Alexander and then quizzed him on them, which made Alexander hate books until he later found the books he loved. We also learn on the first page that by the time he was 2, he was dressed in a dashiki. Overnight, I was barefoot on Mount Everest," unquote.
Within two years, our eldest would pack her belongings, clothes, books, heart and leave home and leave us. They would eventually become impassable canyons. Within a month, the cracks in my marriage emerged. On the opening page of Kwame Alexander's beautifully written new memoir, he writes, "my mother died on September 1, 2017.
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