{"id":60049,"date":"2020-08-12T01:11:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T01:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60049"},"modified":"2020-08-12T01:13:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T01:13:04","slug":"memorial-drive-a-daughters-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60049","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"

Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Ecco<\/a> (an imprint of HarperCollins)
\n2020-07-28
\n224 pages
\n6x8in
\nHardcover ISBN: 9780062248572
\nLarge Print ISBN: 9780063076709
\nE-book ISBN: 9780062248596
\nDigital Audio, MP3 ISBN: 9780063005860<\/p>\n

Natasha Trethewey<\/strong><\/a>, Board of Trustees Professor of English
\nNorthwestern University, Evanston, Illinois<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

An Instant New York Times<\/em> Bestseller<\/strong><\/p>\n

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 tragedy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Pulitzer Prize<\/a>\u2013winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores this profound experience of pain, loss, and grief as an entry point into understanding the tragic course of her mother\u2019s life and the way her own life has been shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience. Moving through her mother\u2019s history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a \u201cchild of miscegenation<\/a>\u201d in Mississippi<\/a>, Trethewey plumbs her sense of dislocation and displacement in the lead-up to the harrowing crime that took place on Memorial Drive<\/a> in Atlanta<\/a> in 1985.<\/p>\n

Memorial Drive<\/em> 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\u2019s attention to language, this is a luminous, urgent, and visceral memoir from one of our most important contemporary writers and thinkers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 tragedy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,1245,11,8,17,20,25],"tags":[7488,11183,3192,31070,1133],"class_list":["post-60049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-biography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","category-women","tag-atlanta","tag-ecco","tag-georgia","tag-gwendolyn-ann-turnbough","tag-natasha-trethewey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60049"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60052,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60049\/revisions\/60052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}