Memorial Drive : a daughter's memoir /

At nineteen, Trethewey'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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Trethewey, Natasha D., > 1966- Women poets, American > Biography. Mothers and daughters > United States > Biography. Family violence > United States. Racially mixed people > United States > Biography. Loss (Psychology) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black. TRUE CRIME / Murder / General.

Table of Contents:

Prologue
Another country
Terminus
Soul train
Loop
Pardon
You know
Dear diary
Accounting
Clairvoyance
Evidence: last words
Hallelujah
Disclosure
Evidence: tape of recorded conversations, June 3 and 4, 1985
What the record shows
June 5, 1985
Jettison
Proximity
Before knowing remembers.