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Ordinary Light: A memoir - Tracy K. Smith
Ordinary Light: A memoir
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a deeply moving memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter.Tracy K. Smith had a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest in... show more
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a deeply moving memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter.Tracy K. Smith had a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest in a family of five children raised with limitless affection and a firm belief i
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ASIN: B00N6PBEU6
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography Memoir, Poetry
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Feminism in Cold Storage
Feminism in Cold Storage rated it
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This one is hard to review. Smith's story is not bad or uninteresting or poorly written, but it just didn't speak to me. While there were familiar elements in her story, whether to my own experience or other books I've already read, there was not much that made it really stand out.In the world of pe...
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What I Happen to Be Reading At the Moment
What I Happen to Be Reading At the Moment rated it
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Excellent memoir from an excellent poet. The combination of disagreeing with parents, growing up, and illness, was treated in an interesting and original way.
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Ordinary Light: A memoir - Tracy K. Smith
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