Ordinary Light: A Memoir
Tracy K. Smith
Ordinary Light was a National Book Award finalist. In 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.
Buy this book at AmazonAd- Publisher
- Vintage
- Year
- 2015
- ISBN-13
- 9780307962676
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Coming-of-ageRace and identityFamily and faith
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(2015)
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