Memorial Drive : a daughter's memoir
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Published
New York, N.Y. : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020].
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Book
Edition
First edition.
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211 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
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Published
New York, N.Y. : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"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.
Description
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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