Ordinary light : a memoir

Summary: "A memoir about the author's coming of age as she grapples with her identity as an artist, her family's racial history, and her mother's death from cancer"--

Item details

ISBN: 9780307962669 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0307962660 (hbk.)
ISBN: 9780307962676 (ebk.)
Physical Description: print
349 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

The miracle -- My book house -- Wild kingdom -- Spirits and demons -- Kin -- Leroy -- A home in the world -- MGM -- Little feats of daring -- Total adventure -- Book a big band -- A necessary rite -- Humor -- Uninvisible -- The night stalker -- Hot and fast -- Shame -- Mother -- Epistolary -- Positive -- Kathleen -- Something better -- The woman at the well -- A strange thing to do -- I, too -- Testimony -- Another dialect of the soul -- Something powerful at her side -- A strange after -- Abide -- Clearances -- Dear God.

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Subject:

Smith, Tracy K
Smith, Tracy K Family
African American women authors Biography
Mothers United States Death
Mothers and daughters United States
Coming of age United States
Home Psychological aspects
African Americans Race identity
Identity (Psychology) United States
Poets Psychology
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary

Genre:

Autobiographies.

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