NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST This dazzling memoir from the former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life on Mars is the story of a young artist struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America.
"Engrossing in its spare, simple understatement.... Evocative ... luminous." -The Washington Post
In Ordinary Light, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith tells her remarkable story, giving us a quietly potent memoir that explores her coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter.
| ISBN: | 9780345804075 |
| Publication date: | 8th March 2016 |
| Author: | Tracy K Smith |
| Publisher: | Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 368 pages |
| Genres: |
Memoirs Biography: writers Biography: general |
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST This dazzling memoir from the former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life on Mars is the story of a young artist struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America."Engrossing in its spare, simple understatement....
Ordinary Light features in the following genres: Memoirs, Biography: writers, Biography: general
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Ordinary Light was written by Tracy K Smith and published by Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Ordinary Light has 368 pages