Ordinary Light A Memoir |
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| Author:
| Smith, Tracy K. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-345-80407-5 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2016 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.00 |
Book Description:
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * This dazzling memoir from the former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life on Mars is the story of a young artist struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America. "Engrossing in its spare, simple understatement.... Evocative ... luminous." --The Washington Post In
Ordinary Light, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K....
More Description NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * This dazzling memoir from the former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life on Mars is the story of a young artist struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America.
"Engrossing in its spare, simple understatement.... Evocative ... luminous." --The Washington Post
In Ordinary Light, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith tells her remarkable story, giving us a quietly potent memoir that explores her coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter.