Ordinary Light
A Memoir
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 349 pages ; 22 cm
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
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.
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.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
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.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
ISBN:
9780307962669 (hardback)
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Smith, Tracy
Please send to Chantal Wilson, Box 52, if the item does not pull a hold. cfw 2/5/24 |
Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
BIOGRAPHY Smith, Tracy | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Biography | In |