author of Hurricane Season
Lord of the Butterflies is a new peak in Gibson’s career
a lifelong Big Burr resident
award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming
Cells no gender author of Hurricane SeasonMemories for my Mother 'Are you going into town today?' she says, which annoys me because it's something she says all the time, having forgotten she said it before, and I say, 'Jesus, Mum, not this again,' and she says, 'What again?' and I say, 'Town is shut down,' and while she can see I am upset and wants not to upset me like this, she is also wounded by my tone, and I am ashamed then and can only look at my plate, and I decide not to bring up what