American author Sasha Bonét has published her debut memoir, "The Waterbearers," opening with a quote from Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison to frame a multigenerational story of Black women in her family, from a grandmother descended from enslaved people in Louisiana to her own experience raising a daughter in New York. The book expands beyond personal history to examine the lives of other trailblazing Black women, including artist Camille Billops and civil rights figure Recy Taylor, exploring how trauma and resilience are inherited across generations. Bonét is presenting the memoir, available in both English and French, at Festival America in Paris this week.