Memorial Drive – Natasha Trethewey

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Natasha Trethewey, former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, turns to memoir in her latest book.  She recalls her childhood in a racially mixed family in the South in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.  When her parents divorced, she moved with her African-American mother to Atlanta, and ultimately to the eponymous Memorial Drive.  This memoir recounts the events leading up to and following her mother’s murder at the age of 40 at the hands of Trethewey’s step-father.  This memoir illuminates issues of racism, domestic violence, and the failure of police protection.  A devastating but necessary book.

I received an advanced copy of this book from the publishers via Edelweiss.  Thanks!