Memorial Drive : a daughter's memoir

The Resource Memorial Drive : a daughter's memoir
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Memorial Drive : a daughter's memoir
Title remainder
a daughter's memoir
Statement of responsibility
Natasha Trethewey
Title variation
Memorial Drive
Title variation remainder
a daughters memoir
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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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  • ALA Notable Book, 2021.
  • LibraryReads Favorites, 2020.
  • New York Times Notable Book, 2020.
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
YDX
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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