Ordinary light : a memoir /

Ordinary light : a memoir / Tracy K. Smith.

"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"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Tracy K.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Smith, Tracy K.
Smith, Tracy K. > Family.
African American women poets > Biography.
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.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The Miracle
  • I. My Book House
  • Wild Kingdom
  • Spirits and Demons
  • Kin
  • Leroy
  • A Home in the World
  • II. MGM
  • Little Feats of Daring
  • Total Adventure
  • Book a Big Band
  • A Necessary Rite
  • Humor
  • III. Uninvisible
  • The Night Stalker
  • Hot & Fast
  • Shame
  • Mother
  • Epistolary
  • Positive
  • IV. Kathleen
  • Something Better
  • The Woman at the Well
  • A Strange Thing to Do
  • I, Too
  • Testimony
  • V. Another Dialect of the Soul
  • Something Powerful at Her Side
  • A Strange After
  • Abide
  • Clearances
  • Epilogue: Dear God.

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