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Memorial Drive: A Daughter''s Memoir

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By (author): Natasha Trethewey

'A meditation on race, and class, and grief ... Uplifting, but just wrenching' BARACK OBAMA ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 CARNEGIE MEDAL IN NON-FICTION 'This will be read for many, many years to come as a classic not just of the memoir genre but of contemporary writing' Simon Schama 'Astonishing' Thandiwe Newton As gripping as any thriller Mail on Sunday A masterpiece Elizabeth Gilbert Powerful The Times At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Heartbreakingly clear-eyed and tender, Memorial Drive is a daughters act of love and an unflinching excavation of the wounds that never heal. For as Trethewey tells her story, and reclaims her mothers, she lays bare the indelible scars of slavery and racism on the soul of a troubled nation. Sheer artistry ... Tretheweys masterpiece suggests that the greatest act of defiance a black person can do is to remember Financial Times See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 178g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Jun 2021
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781408840207

About Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey is a former US poet laureate and the author of five collections of poetry as well as a book of creative non-fiction. She is currently the Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University. In 2007 she won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection Native Guard. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She lives in Illinois. @NTrethewey

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