Memorial Drive : a daughter's memoir

Trethewey, Natasha D 1966- (author.).

Summary: "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."--Dust jacket.

Item details

ISBN: 006224857X
ISBN: 9780062248572
Physical Description: print
211 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020

Contents / Notes

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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Trethewey, Natasha D 1966-
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Mothers and daughters United States Biography
Family violence United States
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black
TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
Trethewey, Natasha D 1966-
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Women poets, American
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