Memorial Drive
Subtitle: A Daughter's Memoir
Publisher: Ecco
Published: Jul 28, 2020
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780062248572
Description: At nineteen, the author's 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. Here she explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became. Moving through her mother's history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a 'child of miscegenation' in Mississippi, she 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. -- adapted from jacket.
Notes: Source title: Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir