A review by beardedreading
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey

dark hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

<i>Memorial Drive</i> tells the story of a young girl who experiences more pain than anyone should endure: the murder of her mother by her stepfather's hand. Trethewey's upbringing in Mississippi to that fateful day on Memorial Drive in Atlanta details the road that shaped her into the poet she is today. We see the trials of living Black in the segregated South through her mother's eyes, as well as being mixed race through Trethewey's. This memoir will destroy you, as you feel various hurts along with Trethewey. And yet, it feels like a necessary trip looking back into one's own memory in order to move forward. 

Brilliant, searing, aching. 
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