Ordinary light: a memoir
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a deeply moving memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter. Tracy K. Smith had a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the younges...
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| Summary: | "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a deeply moving memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter. Tracy K. Smith had a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest in a family of five children raised with limitless affection and a firm belief in God by a stay-at-home mother and an engineer father. But after spending a summer in Alabama at her grandmother's home, she returns to California with a new sense of what it means for her to be black: from her mother's memories of picking cotton as a girl in her father's field for pennies a bushel, to her parents' involvement in the Civil Rights movement. These dizzying juxtapositions...between her family's past, her own comfortable present, and the promise of her future...will eventually compel her to act on her passions for love and 'ecstatic possibility,' and her desire to become a writer. But when her mother is diagnosed with cancer, which she says is part of God's plan, Tracy must learn a new way to love and look after someone whose beliefs she has outgrown. Written with a poet's precision and economy, this gorgeous, probing kaleidoscope of self and family offers us a universal story of belonging and becoming, and the ways we find and lose ourselves amid the places we call home".. |
| Physical Description: | 349 S. 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780307962669 |
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/ SMITH, TRACY K.
: 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
PROLOGUE: THE MIRACLE
I. MY BOOK HOUSE
WILD KINGDOM
SPIRITS AND DEMONS
KIN
LEROY
A HOME IN THE WORLD
II. MGM
LITTLE FEATS OF DARING
TOTAL ADVENTURE
BOOK A BIG BAND
A NECESSARY RITE
HUMOR
III. UNINVISIBLE
THE NIGHT STALKER
HOT & FAST
SHAME
MOTHER
EPISTOLARY
POSITIVE
IV. KATHLEEN
SOMETHING BETTER
THE WOMAN AT THE WELL
A STRANGE THING TO DO
I, TOO
TESTIMONY
V. ANOTHER DIALECT OF THE SOUL
SOMETHING POWERFUL AT HER SIDE
A STRANGE AFTER
ABIDE
CLEARANCES
EPILOGUE: DEAR GOD
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
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