Memorial Drive

Description:

At nineteen, the author'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, she 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.

subjects: nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2020-08-16,  New York Times bestseller,  New York Times reviewed,  Women poets,  Poets, biography,  Mothers and daughters,  Family violence,  Murder, georgia,  American Women poets,  Biography,  Racially mixed people,  Loss (Psychology),  Poétesses américaines,  Biographies,  Mères et filles,  Violence familiale,  Perte (Psychologie),  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black,  TRUE CRIME / Murder / General,  Mother-daughter relationship,  Mothers,  Domestic violence,  Racism,  Women poets, american