NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – This dazzling memoir from the former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life on Mars is the story of a young artist struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America.
“Engrossing in its spare, simple understatement…. Evocative … luminous.” —The Washington PostIn Ordinary Light, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith tells her remarkable story, giving us a quietly potent memoir that explores her coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter.
Author: Tracy K. Smith
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/08/2016
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780345804075
Language: English
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