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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • This dazzling memoir from the former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life on Mars is the story of a young artist struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America.

Engrossing in its spare, simple understatement.... Evocative ... luminous. —The Washington Post

In Ordinary Light, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Tracy K. Smith tells her remarkable story, giving us a quietly potent memoir that explores her coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter.

Ordinary Light

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    A Paperback / softback by Tracy K. Smith

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      Publisher Random House USA Inc
      Published 8 March 2016
      ISBN-13 9780345804075
      978-0345804075
      ISBN-10 0345804074
      Also in:
      Biography: general Memoirs Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • This dazzling memoir from the former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life on Mars is the story of a young artist struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America.

      Engrossing in its spare, simple understatement.... Evocative ... luminous. —The Washington Post

      In Ordinary Light, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Tracy K. Smith tells her remarkable story, giving us a quietly potent memoir that explores her coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter.

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