Description
In this quietly powerful memoir, a young woman traces her coming-of-age in Northern California while grappling with the intertwined legacies of family, faith, race, and loss. Framed by the illness and death of her mother, the narrative moves between intimate memories of childhood and an emerging understanding of the histories—personal and national—that shape Black life in America. As she searches to understand the woman her mother was before motherhood and to find her own voice as an artist, ordinary moments become sources of revelation. Rendered in spare, luminous prose, the memoir explores home, memory, grief, and the gradual making of a poet.
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paperback
Alfred A. Knopf
Published Jan 1, 2015
349 pages
ISBN: 9780307962669
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Details
First Published
2015
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith.