<div><b>Nikki Giovanni</b> created this book by asking her friends--people like Gloria Naylor, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Maxine Hong Kingston--for their stories and recollections of their grandmothers, then to a group of writers in their ninties for their thoughts. <i>Grand Mothers </i>celebrates those special women in every culture who preserve heritae and prepare the future.<br></div>