A Daughter's Memoir
by Natasha Trethewey
Recommended by 3 notable people, including Barack Obama and Margaret Atwood
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At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to Adult,hood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became.Pulitzer Prize–winning...
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