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Author:

Smith, Tracy K., author.

Title:

Ordinary light : a memoir / Tracy K. Smith.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

349 pages ; 22 cm

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.
Autobiographies.

Contents:

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.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0307962660 (hbk.)
9780307962669 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)900157951

LCCN:

2014026185

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