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The Resource Memorial Drive : a daughter's memoir, Natasha Trethewey

Memorial Drive : a daughter's memoir, Natasha Trethewey

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Summary
  • "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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
211 pages
Contents
  • 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
Isbn
9780062248572
Instance
Label
Memorial Drive : a daughter's memoir
Title
Memorial Drive
Title remainder
a daughter's memoir
Statement of responsibility
Natasha Trethewey
Title variation
Memorial Drive
Title variation remainder
a daughters memoir
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • "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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Writing style
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  • ALA Notable Book, 2021.
  • LibraryReads Favorites, 2020.
  • New York Times Notable Book, 2020.
Biography type
autobiography
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10900567
Cataloging source
YDX
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1966-
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Trethewey, Natasha D.
Dewey number
  • 811/.54
  • B
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3570.R433
LC item number
Z46 2020
Literary form
non fiction
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True
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  • Trethewey, Natasha D
  • Women poets, American
  • Mothers and daughters
  • Family violence
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black
  • TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
  • Trethewey, Natasha D
  • Family violence
  • Mothers and daughters
  • Women poets, American
  • United States
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a daughter's memoir
Label
Memorial Drive : a daughter's memoir, Natasha Trethewey
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Publication
Copyright
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
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
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
211 pages
Isbn
9780062248572
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1125368285
Label
Memorial Drive : a daughter's memoir, Natasha Trethewey
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
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
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
211 pages
Isbn
9780062248572
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1125368285

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