Ordinary light : a memoir
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
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9780307962669, 0307962660
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Addison Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult BooksBIO 811.6 SMITH T.On Shelf
Batavia Public Library District - Adult BiographyB Smith, Tracy K.On Shelf
Bensenville Community Public Library District - Nonfiction811.6 SMIOn Shelf
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
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Book
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349 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780307962669, 0307962660

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"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
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"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.
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"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"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Smith, T. K. (2015). Ordinary light: a memoir (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Smith, Tracy K. 2015. Ordinary Light: A Memoir. Alfred A. Knopf.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Smith, Tracy K. Ordinary Light: A Memoir Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Smith, Tracy K. Ordinary Light: A Memoir First edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

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