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The Resource Memorial drive : a daughter's memoir, Natasha Trethewey, (electronic resource)

Memorial drive : a daughter's memoir, Natasha Trethewey, (electronic resource)

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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 tragedyAt age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her 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 and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became.With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores this profound experience of pain, loss, and grief as an entry point into understanding the tragic course of her mother's life and the way her own life has been shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience. 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.Memorial Drive is a compelling and searching look at a shared human experience of sudden loss and absence but also a piercing glimpse at the enduring ripple effects of white racism and domestic abuse. Animated by unforgettable prose and inflected by a poet's attention to language, this is a luminous, urgent, and visceral memoir from one of our most important contemporary writers and thinkers
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eng
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1 online resource.
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9780062248596
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Memorial drive : a daughter's memoir
Title
Memorial drive
Title remainder
a daughter's memoir
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Natasha Trethewey
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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 tragedyAt age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her 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 and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became.With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores this profound experience of pain, loss, and grief as an entry point into understanding the tragic course of her mother's life and the way her own life has been shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience. 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.Memorial Drive is a compelling and searching look at a shared human experience of sudden loss and absence but also a piercing glimpse at the enduring ripple effects of white racism and domestic abuse. Animated by unforgettable prose and inflected by a poet's attention to language, this is a luminous, urgent, and visceral memoir from one of our most important contemporary writers and thinkers
Biography type
autobiography
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RECBK
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1966-
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Trethewey, Natasha D.
Dewey number
811/.54
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LC call number
PS3570.R433
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non fiction
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dictionaries
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  • Recorded Books, Inc
  • OverDrive, Inc
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  • Trethewey, Natasha D
  • Trethewey, Natasha D
  • Women poets, American
  • Mothers and daughters
  • Family violence
  • Family violence
  • Mothers and daughters
  • Women poets, American
  • United States
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Memorial drive : a daughter's memoir, Natasha Trethewey, (electronic resource)
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multicolored
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unknown
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1 online resource.
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online
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9780062248596
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unknown
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388b18c7-0a6f-4488-941b-b9802041f2ec
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EB00782899
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  • (OCoLC)1164729337
  • (OCoLC)on1164729337
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Memorial drive : a daughter's memoir, Natasha Trethewey, (electronic resource)
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Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
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multicolored
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource.
File format
unknown
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online
Isbn
9780062248596
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unknown
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388b18c7-0a6f-4488-941b-b9802041f2ec
Publisher number
EB00782899
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not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
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unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
  • (OCoLC)1164729337
  • (OCoLC)on1164729337

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