Memorial Drive a daughter's memoir
At nineteen Trethewey's world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma. Here she explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the ar...
| Main Author: | Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, NY :
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
At nineteen Trethewey's world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma. Here she explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became. Moving through her mother's history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a 'child of miscegenation' in Mississippi, Trethewey plumbs her sense of dislocation and displacement in the lead-up to the harrowing crime that took place on Memorial Drive in Atlanta in 1985. -- adapted from jacket |
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| Physical Description: |
211 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: |
006224857X 9780062248572 |