Memorial Drive is a memoir by author Natasha Trethewey.
Memorial Drive is a fascinating and inquiring look at the common human experience of sudden loss and absence. A piercing look at the long-term effects of white racism and domestic abuse. This is a bright, urgent, and intuitive memoir by one of our most important contemporary writers and thinkers.
The personal and exquisitely forged memoir of a daughter recounts her mother’s brutal death at the hands of her former stepfather, and the touching, intimate story of a poet turned protagonist. after a tragedy.
At the age of 19, Natasha Trethewey’s world was turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. She faced two life-or-death streams as a result of unimaginable trauma and now explores how this experience has shaped her enduring artist.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores this poignant experience of pain, loss, and grief as a starting point for understanding the tragic course of her mother’s life and her own life path. has been shaped by a legacy of intense love and resilience.
This memoir goes so deep into the reader’s soul that the reader becomes one with the author. Natasha Trethewey’s grief over her mother’s murder becomes metamorphic until Trethewey uses her story to demonstrate the strength she has in the face of her own trauma and turns it into a story. Stories give readers a glimpse of what it would be like to live in someone else’s shoes.
