Book Review Memorial Drive

I was compelled to finish it quickly the way we are taught to rip band aids off our wounds to ensure that.

Book review memorial drive. A daughter s memoir by natasha trethewey. It is a controlled burn of chaos and intellection. Memorial drive is about the murder of her mother gwendolyn who was 40 by gwendolyn s second.

March 24 2020 march 23 2020. I barreled unexpectedly through natasha trethewey s beautiful and painful memoir memorial drive. In memorial drive a poet evokes her childhood and confronts her mother s murder natasha trethewey s memorial drive is among so many other wondrous things an exploration of a black mother and.

However in memorial drive ms trethewey has created a believably understandable journey that she took down a road that was filled w many times i feel that the writers of memoirs often embellish their memories and do try for the ultimate shock value in their stories. Her book native guard earned her the 2007 pulitzer prize for poetry and she was named united states poet laureate in 2012. Book review memorial drive.