Bibliograph

Memorial Drive, a daughter's memoir, Natasha Trethewey

Type

Label

Memorial Drive, a daughter's memoir, Natasha Trethewey

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Memorial Drive

Responsibility statement

Natasha Trethewey

Sub title

a daughter's memoir

Summary

At nineteen Trethewey'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, 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. -- adapted from jacket

Table Of Contents

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

Classification