Memorial Drive Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Natasha Trethewey
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
276

Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey Book Summary

An Instant New York Times Bestseller 

A New York Times Notable Book 

One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020

Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Esquire, Electric Literature, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and InStyle

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

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.

With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores this profound experience of pain, loss, and grief as an entry point into understanding the tragic course of her mother’s life and the way her own life has been shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience. 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.

Memorial Drive is a compelling and searching look at a shared human experience of sudden loss and absence but also a piercing glimpse at the enduring ripple effects of white racism and domestic abuse. Animated by unforgettable prose and inflected by a poet’s attention to language, this is a luminous, urgent, and visceral memoir from one of our most important contemporary writers and thinkers.

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Book Name Memorial Drive
Genre Biographies & Memoirs
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 1.55 MB

Memorial Drive (Natasha Trethewey) Book Reviews 2024

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Amazing. When I find myself reading and re-reading paragraphs and even chapters in a book, I know that the writing is superb and beyond my ability to absorb all at one time. This is one I could read over and over and still find writing at which to marvel. Excellent and painful.

Stunning memoire. Her story of trauma and memory is told lyrically.

Beautifully written and terribly heartbreaking. Just poetry in long form.

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Summary of Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey

The Memorial Drive book written by Natasha Trethewey was published on 28 July 2020, Tuesday in the Biographies & Memoirs category. A total of 276 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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