Gravity Is Stronger Here is a creative nonfiction montage that includes docu-poems by critically acclaimed writer Jardine Libaire; it’s a book about looking for America in America. In 2011, I visited Greenville, Mississippi, starting a five-year-long documentary project featuring Halea Brown (who is openly gay) and her dynamic Southern American family. Greenville is a key tile in our national mosaic as it represents the American boom town left in the wake of a changing global economy. The book presents us with a place/space where love for a gay daughter and an Evangelical love of God can exist in one mother, violence and tenderness in the same relationship, and hope and hopelessness in the same daily life. These multiple truths are often lost in stories that collapse American families into constituencies.