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Memorial Drive : : a Daughter's Memoir

Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966- Book - 2020 921 Trethewey, Natasha , Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Literary / Trethewey, Natasha D., 921 Trethewey, Natasha 6 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.3 out of 5

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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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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Year Published: 2020
Description: 211 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
006224857X
9780062248572

SUBJECTS
Trethewey, Natasha D., -- 1966-
Women poets, American -- Biography.
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Biography.
Family violence.