Ordinary light : a memoir
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
349 pages ; 22 cm
Status
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Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Albany Co. Public Library - Nonfiction | 814 SMITH | On Shelf |
Campbell Co. Public Library - Biography | B SMITH T. | On Shelf |
Casper College Library - Main Collection | PS3619 .M5955 Z46 2015 | On Shelf |
Laramie Co. Library - Cheyenne - Third Floor | B SMITH, T | On Shelf |
Natrona Co. Public Library - Biography | B SMITH | On Shelf |
Subjects
Library of Congress Subjects
African American women authors -- Biography.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Coming of age -- United States.
Home -- Psychological aspects.
Identity (Psychology) -- United States.
Mothers -- United States -- Death.
Mothers and daughters -- United States.
Poets -- Psychology.
Smith, Tracy K.
Smith, Tracy K. -- Family.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Coming of age -- United States.
Home -- Psychological aspects.
Identity (Psychology) -- United States.
Mothers -- United States -- Death.
Mothers and daughters -- United States.
Poets -- Psychology.
Smith, Tracy K.
Smith, Tracy K. -- Family.
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Summary
"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 in God by a stay-at-home mother and an engineer father. But after spending a summer in Alabama at her grandmother's home, she returns to California with a new sense of what it means for her to be black: from her mother's memories of picking cotton as a girl in her father's field for pennies a bushel, to her parents' involvement in the Civil Rights movement. These dizzying juxtapositions--between her family's past, her own comfortable present, and the promise of her future--will eventually compel her to act on her passions for love and 'ecstatic possibility, ' and her desire to become a writer. But when her mother is diagnosed with cancer, which she says is part of God's plan, Tracy must learn a new way to love and look after someone whose beliefs she has outgrown. Written with a poet's precision and economy, this gorgeous, probing kaleidoscope of self and family offers us a universal story of belonging and becoming, and the ways we find and lose ourselves amid the places we call home"--,Provided by publisher.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Smith, T. K. (2015). Ordinary light: a memoir (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Smith, Tracy K. 2015. Ordinary Light: A Memoir. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Smith, Tracy K. Ordinary Light: A Memoir Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Smith, Tracy K. Ordinary Light: A Memoir First edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
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