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   Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir. (2020, Ecco) An Instant New York Times Bestseller. Winner of the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction. Finalist for the 2021 Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction. Long-listed for the 2021 Prix Médicis. Nominated for the 2021 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in nonfiction.

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     Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey served two terms as...

2. www.nytimes.com › 2020/07/27 › books‘Memorial Drive’ Powerfully Recalls a Southern Childhood and ...

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   Jul 27, 2020 · In her new memoir, the former poet laureate Natasha Trethewey writes about her upbringing and her mother’s violent death at the hands of an abusive husband.

3. www.nytimes.com › 2020/07/30 › booksIn ‘Memorial Drive’ a Poet Evokes Her Childhood and Confronts ...

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   Jul 30, 2020 · The new memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey is an aching investigation of trauma and art.

4. www.usatoday.com › story › entertainment'Memorial Drive': A poet tries to make sense of her mother's ...

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   Jul 26, 2020 · “Memorial Drive” is Trethewey’s gorgeous exploration of all the wounds that never heal: her mother’s, her own, and the wounds of slavery and racism on the soul of a troubled nation.

5. www.harvardreview.org › book-review › memorial-driveMemorial Drive - Harvard Review

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   May 5, 2021 · In her memoir Memorial Drive, Natasha Trethewey tells the harrowing story of her family’s unraveling, her mother’s murder, and her subsequent struggle to cope. When Trethewey was nineteen, her stepfather, Joel, shot and killed her mother in cold blood outside of her Atlanta apartment.

6. www.npr.org › 2020/07/26 › 895480898Trethewey's 'Memorial Drive' Tells The Story Of Her Mother's ...

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   Jul 26, 2020 · Natasha Trethewey is a two-time U.S. Poet Laureate and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Now she's written a memoir about her mother. She talks to NPR's Sarah McCammon about Memorial Drive.

7. www.npr.org › 2020/07/28 › 895724155In 'Memorial Drive,' Natasha Trethewey Opens Up About Her ...

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   Jul 28, 2020 · Thirty-five years ago, Natasha Trethewey's stepfather shot and killed her mother outside of her home in a suburb of Atlanta.

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   What is Natasha Trethewey's new book 'Memorial Drive' about?

   • She talks to NPR's Sarah McCammon about Memorial Drive. "Memorial Drive" is the title of Natasha Trethewey's new book. It's also the street in Atlanta where her mother lived and - there's no way to put this delicately - where she was murdered by her ex-husband when Natasha was just 19 years old.

   Trethewey's 'Memorial Drive' Tells The Story Of Her Mother's Murder

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   What happened at Memorial Drive in Atlanta in 1985?

   • 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.

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   What is the theme of Memorial Drive?

   • In Memorial Drive, the musicality of language combines with imagistic intensity to create a world of heightened subjectivity . . . By [including her mother’s writings] rather than speaking for her or over her, Trethewey centers the victim of the abuse and trauma. Again, agency and voice, not erasure, is Trethewey’s project here.

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   What is 'Memorial Drive'?

   • “Memorial Drive” forces the reader to think about how the sublime Southern conjurers of words, spaces, sounds and patterns protect themselves from trauma when trauma may be, in part, what nudged them down the dusty road to poetic mastery.

   In ‘Memorial Drive’ a Poet Evokes Her Childhood and Confronts Her

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   Is Memorial Drive a good book?

   • Nominated for the 2021 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in nonfiction Finalist for the 2021 Heartland Booksellers Award A book that makes a reader feel as much as Memorial Drive does cannot be written without an absolute mastery of varied modes of discourse.

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   • Memorial Drive forces the reader to think about how the sublime Southern conjurers of words, spaces, sounds and patterns protect themselves from trauma when trauma may be, in part, what nudged them down the dusty road to poetic mastery.

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