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100 1 Smith, Tracy K.,|eauthor.
245 10 Ordinary light|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic resource]|ba
memoir /|cTracy K. Smith.
264 1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2015.
300 1 online resource
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
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338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier
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380 Biography|2marcgt
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500 "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
500 Electronic book.
505 0 Prologue: The Miracle -- I. My Book House -- Wild Kingdom
-- Spirits and Demons -- Kin -- Leroy -- A Home in the
World -- II. MGM -- Little Feats of Daring -- Total
Adventure -- Book a Big Band -- A Necessary Rite -- Humor
-- III. Uninvisible -- The Night Stalker -- Hot & Fast --
Shame -- Mother -- Epistolary -- Positive -- IV. Kathleen
-- Something Better -- The Woman at the Well -- A Strange
Thing to Do -- I, Too -- Testimony -- V. Another Dialect
of the Soul -- Something Powerful at Her Side -- A Strange
After -- Abide -- Clearances -- Epilogue: Dear God.
520 2 "A memoir about the author's coming of age as she grapples
with her identity as an artist, her family's racial
history, and her mother's death from cancer"--|cProvided
by publisher.
520 2 "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a deeply moving
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. Tracy K.
Smith had a fairly typical upbringing in suburban
California: the youngest in a family of five children
raised with limitless affection and a firm belief in God
by a stay-at-home mother and an engineer father. But after
spending a summer in Alabama at her grandmother's home,
she returns to California with a new sense of what it
means for her to be black: from her mother's memories of
picking cotton as a girl in her father's field for pennies
a bushel, to her parents' involvement in the Civil Rights
movement. These dizzying juxtapositions--between her
family's past, her own comfortable present, and the
promise of her future--will eventually compel her to act
on her passions for love and 'ecstatic possibility,' and
her desire to become a writer. But when her mother is
diagnosed with cancer, which she says is part of God's
plan, Tracy must learn a new way to love and look after
someone whose beliefs she has outgrown. Written with a
poet's precision and economy, this gorgeous, probing
kaleidoscope of self and family offers us a universal
story of belonging and becoming, and the ways we find and
lose ourselves amid the places we call home"--|cProvided
by publisher.
533 Electronic reproduction.|bNew York|cKnopf Doubleday
Publishing Group|d2015|nAvailable via World Wide Web.
600 10 Smith, Tracy K.
600 10 Smith, Tracy K.|xFamily.
650 0 African American women authors|vBiography.
650 0 Mothers|zUnited States|xDeath.
650 0 Mothers and daughters|zUnited States.
650 0 Coming of age|zUnited States.
650 0 Home|xPsychological aspects.
650 0 African Americans|xRace identity.
650 0 Identity (Psychology)|zUnited States.
650 0 Poets|xPsychology.
655 7 Electronic books.|2local
710 2 OverDrive, Inc.,|edistributor.
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