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Memorial Drive : a daughter's memoir / Natasha Trethewey.
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
Record details
- ISBN: 006224857X
- ISBN: 9780062248572
- Physical Description: 211 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966- Women poets, American > Biography. Mothers and daughters > United States > Biography. Family violence > United States. |
| Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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- 5 of 5 copies available at Lackawanna County Library System.
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- 1 current hold with 5 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abington Community Library | 92 TRETHEW (Text) | 50687011716522 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - | ||
| Albright Memorial Library | 92 TRETHEW (Text) | 50686015630242 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - | ||
| Carbondale Public Library | 92 TRETHEW (Text) | 50688010783935 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - | ||
| North Pocono Public Library | 92 TRETHEW (Text) | 50691010902067 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - | ||
| Taylor Community Library | 92 TRETHEW (Text) | 50692010920505 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Summary:
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
