A review by hatrireads
Ordinary Light: A Memoir by Tracy K. Smith

3.0

I love that this is my first book of 2019. Tracy K. Smith's memoir really touched me. She used simple clear language to describe her life in a chronological, orderly story. As I realized at the end, what she was really doing was creating her portrait of her mother. She tells us everything she can remember about the faithful, kind woman who raised her. We only see her mother through Tracy's eyes, but it is a lovely portrait of a mother by a daughter. A daughter who is now the Poet Laureate of the United States. I heard her speak last June at the American Library Association and was so impressed with her gentle, kind demeanor. Now I know where she got it. I have loved her poems, now I am also a fan of her prose.