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"Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. He worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure, and believed a woman's highest virtue was her obedience. In an...
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2017.
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English
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* INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *
"Stunning...heartrending...this year's When Breath Becomes Air." —Nora Krug, The Washington Post
"Beautiful and haunting." —Matt McCarthy, MD, USA TODAY
"Deeply affecting...simultaneously heartbreaking and funny." —People (Book of the Week)
"Vivid, immediate." —Laura Collins-Hughes, The...
"Stunning...heartrending...this year's When Breath Becomes Air." —Nora Krug, The Washington Post
"Beautiful and haunting." —Matt McCarthy, MD, USA TODAY
"Deeply affecting...simultaneously heartbreaking and funny." —People (Book of the Week)
"Vivid, immediate." —Laura Collins-Hughes, The...
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W.W. Norton & Company
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c2012
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English
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2023 Reading Challenge: Memoir or autobiography by someone you admire
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A memoir from the Native American poet describes her youth with an abusive stepfather, becoming a single teen mom, and how she struggled to finally find inner peace and her creative voice.
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[2020]
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English
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At nineteen Trethewey's world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma. Here she explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became. Moving through her mother's history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a 'child of miscegenation' in Mississippi,...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2015.
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English
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" In THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, Elizabeth Alexander--poet, mother, and wife--finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband, who was just 49. Reflecting with gratitude on the exquisite beauty of her married life that was, grappling with the subsequent void, and feeling a re-energized devotion to her two teenage sons, Alexander channels her poetic sensibilities into a rich, lucid prose that describes a very personal and...
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Viking
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[2019]
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English
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"Poets of the twentieth century Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that 'Elizabeth had more talent for life--and for poetry--than anyone else I've known.' This new biography reveals just how she learned to marry her talent for life with her talent for writing in order to create a brilliant array of poems, prose, and letters--a remarkable body of work that would make her one of America's most beloved and celebrated poets. In Love...
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Soft Skull
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2022.
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English
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"In Catholic grade school, Emma Bolden has a strange, intimate experience with a teacher that unleashes a short-lived chronic coughing spell -- something the medical establishment will later use against her, as she struggles through chronic pain and fainting spells that coincide with her menstrual cycle. With The Tiger and the Cage, Bolden uses her own experience as the starting point for a journey through the institutional misogyny of Western medicine...
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