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

5.0

This is a powerful and devastating account of domestic abuse, murder and a daughter's accounting and reclaiming of her mother's story. Throughout the first part of the book Trethewey speaks to her young self, retelling the story that has profoundly impacted and informed her life and work as a poet and writer. Her masterful telling is full of the longing and lost promise of the woman she shows as loving, strong and intelligent; so much more than the victim of an obsessive man and the systems of protection that failed her.