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Ordinary light : a memoir
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"In Ordinary light, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith explores her coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mothe...
"In Ordinary light, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith 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."--Page 4 of cover.
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- Creator
- Tracy K. Smith
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First Vintage books edition
- New York : Vintage, 2016
- ©2015
- Physical Details
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- 349 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 0345804074, 9780345804075
- OCLC
- ocn913499554
- Prologue: The miracle -- My book house -- Wild kingdom -- Spirits and demons -- Kin -- Leroy -- A home in the world -- MGM -- Little feats of daring -- Total adaventure -- 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 atfer -- Abide -- Clearances -- Epilogue: Dear God -- Acknowledgments
Subjects
- Smith, Tracy K.
- Smith, Tracy K. -- Family.
- 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.
- Mother-Child Relations.
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- Mothers.
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- Black or African American.
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- Women.
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