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Memorial Drive - A Daughter's Memoir (Hardcover)
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Memorial Drive - A Daughter's Memoir (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R510
Discovery Miles 5 100
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ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 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 'The work of a poet. A great poet' Financial Times 'A
must-read classic' Mary Karr 'Trethewey writes elegantly,
trenchantly, intimately as well about the fraught history of the
south and what it means live at the intersection of America's
struggle between blackness and whiteness. And what, in our troubled
republic, is a subject more evergreen?' Mitchell S. Jackson Natasha
Trethewey was born in Mississippi in the 60s to a black mother and
a white father. When she was six, Natasha's parents divorced, and
she and her mother moved to Atlanta. There, her mother met the man
who would become her second husband, and Natasha's stepfather.
While she was still a child, Natasha decided that she would not
tell her mother about what her stepfather did when she was not
there: the quiet bullying and control, the games of cat and mouse.
Her mother kept her own secrets, secrets that grew harder to hide
as Natasha came of age. When Natasha was nineteen and away at
college, her stepfather shot her mother dead on the driveway
outside their home. With penetrating insight and a searing voice
that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Memorial Drive is a
compelling and searching look at a shared human experience of
sudden loss and absence, and a piercing glimpse at the enduring
ripple effects of white racism and domestic abuse. Luminous,
urgent, and visceral, it cements Trethewey's position as one of the
most important voices in America today.
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