Memorial Drive

"In Memorial Drive, Natasha Trethewey’s achingly beautiful memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet reflects upon the trauma of her youth while unearthing the legacy of women in her family. Here is the full range of Trethewey’s brilliance: her soft nuance, depth of looking and her shimmering constructions of language and imagery. “All my adult life I have lived with the guilt that I am implicated in my mother’s death – or, more precisely that she is dead because I am not,” writes Tretheway, whose life turns upon this moment when her abusive stepfather came to the teenage Tretheway’s school to kill her and then decided to kill her mother instead."

"Want to also reread Natasha Trethewey's "Memorial Drive," which I read some time ago in galley."