Up Home: One Girl's Journey H. Melt Crazy for Vincent begins with

Crazy for Vincent begins with the death of the figure it fixates upon: Vincent

Writing in a style she calls "afiction

Seek the support she needs

Searching for connection

Can be used on its own

Up Home: One Girl's Journey H. Melt Crazy for Vincent begins withNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Simmons's evocative account of her remarkable trajectory from Jim Crow Texas, where she was the youngest of twelve children in a sharecropping family, to the presidencies of Smith College and Brown University shines with tenderness and dignity." The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "A riveting work of literature, destined to take its place in the canon of great African American autobiographies." Henry Louis