In her haunting and potent memoir, MEMORIAL DRIVE: A DAUGHTER’S MEMOIR, Pulitzer Prize winner and former two-term Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey presents a stunning and breathtakingly beautiful story that is both elegy and ode at once—a chronicle of devastating loss, as well as a testament to a daughter’s abiding love for her mother.
The daughter of parents who had an illegal mixed-race marriage in Mississippi, and raised in the shadow of the Jim Crow South, Trethewey plumbs the depths of history, memory, race, and racism, while also writing heart-wrenchingly about her mother’s murder and reckoning with the domestic abuse that preceded it. Additionally, MEMORIAL DRIVE is the story of a prize-winning poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy, and of how Trethewey’s life has been shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience.
MEMORIAL DRIVE hardcover currently available on www.blackbookstore.com (Ecco; trade paperback; on-sale: June 1, 2021; ISBN: 9780062248589)
