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  • My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand she spent more time with these women than with a lot of her friends, and how in certain ways they were friends. But then they weren't.

    "Jesmyn Ward: 'I wanted to write about the people of the south'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.