01802cam a2200349 i 4500 476882134 TxAuBib 20210114120000.0 191101s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062248572 006224857X (OCoLC)1125368285 TxAuBib rda Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966- Memorial Drive [Hard Cover] : a daughter's memoir / Natasha Trethewey. First edition. New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] 211 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. Moving through her mother's history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a "child of miscegenation" in Mississippi, the author 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. -- Book jacket. 20210114. Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966- Women poets, American Biography. Mothers and daughters United States Biography. Mothers United States Death. Family violence United States. Racism United States. Mississippi Social conditions 20th century. TXLMP