Memorial Drive : : a Daughter's Memoir

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Call Number: 921 Trethewey, Natasha, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Literary / Trethewey, Natasha D.
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

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Prologue -- Another country -- Terminus -- Soul train -- Loop -- Pardon -- You know -- Dear diary -- Accounting -- Clairvoyance -- Evidence: last words -- Hallelujah -- Disclosure -- Evidence: tape of recorded conversations, June 3 and 4, 1985 -- What the record shows -- June 5, 1985 -- Jettison -- Proximity -- Before knowing remembers.
"A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy."--Dust jacket.
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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Excellent and powerful submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on July 5, 2024, 12:38pm Oh, wow. This powerful memoir of love, loss, and domestic violence was a lot more heart wrenching than I realized when I started reading it, but I absolutely could not put it down. Trethewey’s writing is compelling, emotional, and brought me right into the story. The portion that was second person POV may be the first and only time this writing perspective ever made sense to me, and it was an effective tool for that section. An excellent memoir, and a tribute to both her lost self and her lost mother.