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    Ordinary light : a memoir / Tracy K. Smith.
    by Smith, Tracy K.
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    Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
    Call #:921 S6622o
    Subjects
  • Smith, Tracy K. -- Family.
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  • Smith, Tracy K.
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  • Coming of age -- Biography.
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  • Mothers and daughters -- Biography.
    •  
  • Mothers -- Death -- Biography.
    •  
  • Identity (Psychology)
    •  
  • Home -- Psychological aspects.
    •  
  • Blacks -- United States -- Race identity.
    •  
  • Poets -- Psychology.
    •  
  • Women poets, Black -- Biography.
    •  
  • Women poets, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
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  • Women authors, Black -- 21st century -- Biography.
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  • Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
    • ISBN: 
    9780307962669 (hc.)
    0307962660 (hc.)
    Edition: 
    1st edition.
    Description: 
    349 p. ; 22 cm
    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: 
    "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a quietly potent memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter. The youngest of five children, Tracy K. Smith was raised with limitless affection and a firm belief in God by a stay-at-home mother and an engineer father. But just as Tracy is about to leave home for college, her mother is diagnosed with cancer, a condition she accepts as part of God's plan. Ordinary Light is the story of a young woman struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America. Smith interrogates her childhood in suburban California, her first collision with independence at Harvard, and her Alabama-born parents' recollections of their own youth in the Civil Rights era. These dizzying juxtapositions -- of her family's past, her own comfortable present, and the promise of her future -- will in due course compel Tracy to act on her passions for love and "ecstatic possibility," and her desire to become a writer. Shot through with exquisite lyricism, wry humor, and an acute awareness of the beauty of everyday life, Ordinary Light is a kaleidoscope of self and family, one that skillfully combines a child's and teenager's perceptions with adult retrospection. A universal story of being and becoming, a portrait of the ways we find and lose ourselves amid the places we call home. Tracy K. Smith is the author of three books of poetry, including Life on Mars, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. She is a professor of creative writing at Princeton University"--Provided by publisher.
    Genre: 
    Autobiographies.
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