A review by diningtablebooks
Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

I absolutely loved how Trethewey brought to light many of history’s past racial injustices and was able to tie in her mother’s own experience into it, as well as, carry the reader through her mother’s death through her poetic format. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Racial slurs, Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Slavery