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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey

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3.5
reflective slow-paced

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4.5
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4.5
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5.0
Moving and beautifully written
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5.0
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4.25
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4.0
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4.0
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5.0
Former US poet laureate Natasha Trethewey's moving memoir about her mother's murder at the hands of her former stepfather and her life up that point. It is a treatise on trauma and its effect on a family and the spirit and an account of domestic abuse and what is hidden. As a poet, she is capable of creating indelible images with her words at times. Here she is describing playing back her mother's voice on the answering machine after the murder: "The length of tape that held her voice had been as tenuous as the faith that held Orpheus and Eurydice together as he tried to lead her out of the underworld. In my impatience, I had severed it."

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4.0
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