num_pages: 213
description: 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.Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Natasha Trethewey explores this profound experience of pain loss and grief as an entry point into understanding the tragic course of her mothers life and the way her own life has been shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience. Moving through her mothers 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.
language: English
title: Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
publisher: Ecco