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MEMORIAL DRIVE - NATASHA TRETHEWEY GEBUNDEN

An Instant New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book One of Barack Obama's
Favorite Books of 2020 Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post  NPR 
Shelf Awareness  Esquire  Electric Literature  Slate  The Los Angeles Times  USA Today  and
InStyle 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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