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MEMORIAL DRIVE

Natasha Trethewey

  • Original Title: MEMORIAL DRIVE
  • Publication date: July 2020
  • Publisher: ECCO
  • Country: US
  • 224 print pages
  • Factual/Memoirs

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  • Epoch: Mixed
  • Time Period: 20th century, 21st century
  • Location setting: United States
  • Themes: FAMILY, Childhood, Maternity, Filiation, Mourning, PEOPLE facing life, Looking back on one's life, Death, Resilience, SOCIETY DYSFUNCTIONS, Racism, Violence, CHARACTERS, Strong Female Character, Minorities

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At 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.

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An Instant New York Times Bestseller

Debut memoir.

Natasha Trethewey is a former US poet laureate and the author of five collections of poetry, as well as a book of creative nonfiction. She is currently the Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University. In 2007 she won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection NATIVE GUARD.

Summary

A chillingly personal 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.

At 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.

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