Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

Native Guard

Natasha Trethewey

51 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history poetry challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South -- where one of the first black regiments, the Louisiana Native Guards, was called into ser...

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Moods

reflective 85%
emotional 77%
sad 41%
challenging 29%
dark 29%
informative 27%
inspiring 10%
hopeful 8%
tense 6%
mysterious 4%

Pace

medium 50%
slow 36%
fast 13%

Average rating

4.22

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