Book Review Memorial Drive

I was compelled to finish it quickly the way we are taught to rip band aids off our wounds to ensure that.

Book review memorial drive. I barreled unexpectedly through natasha trethewey s beautiful and painful memoir memorial drive. It is a memoir that will really lay you out. Memorial drive is about the murder of her mother gwendolyn who was 40 by gwendolyn s second.

Her book native guard earned her the 2007 pulitzer prize for poetry and she was named united states poet laureate in 2012. However in memorial drive ms trethewey has created a believably understandable journey that she took down a road that was filled w many times i feel that the writers of memoirs often embellish their memories and do try for the ultimate shock value in their stories. Natasha trethewey along with writers like jesmyn ward and greg iles has been a twenty first century torchbearer for mississippi s literary legacy.

A daughter s memoir by natasha trethewey in her book the pulitzer prize winning poet is a daughter who returns to her mother s crime scene to reclaim herself reviewed. A daughter s memoir by natasha trethewey. In memorial drive a poet evokes her childhood and confronts her mother s murder natasha trethewey s memorial drive is among so many other wondrous things an exploration of a black mother and.