Natasha Trethewey
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Le 5 juin 1985, Gwendolyn Turnbough est assassinée par son ex-mari, Joel Grimmette Jr, dit « Big Joe ». Plus de trente années après ce drame qui a changé sa vie, Natasha Trethewey, sa fille, raconte et analyse le destin tragique de sa mère.
Dans ce récit déchirant d'un féminicide, Natasha Trethewey entremêle la trajectoire des femmes de sa famille et celle d'une Amérique meurtrie par le racisme et la violence masculine.
Née en 1966, Natasha Trethewey est une écrivaine et poétesse américaine, lauréate du prix Pulitzer en 2006, puis Poet Laureate en 2012 et 2013. Publié en 2020 aux États-Unis, Memorial Drive a connu un immense succès critique et public, restant plusieurs semaines dans la liste des best-sellers du New York Times.
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''A must-read classic'' Mary Karr ''Trethewey writes elegantly, trenchantly, intimately as well about the fraught history of the south and what it means live at the intersection of America''s struggle between blackness and whiteness. And what, in our troubled republic, is a subject more evergreen?'' Mitchell S. Jackson Natasha Trethewey was born in Mississippi in the 60s to a black mother and a white father. When she was six, Natasha''s parents divorced, and she and her mother moved to Atlanta. There, her mother met the man who would become her second husband, and Natasha''s stepfather.
While she was still a child, Natasha decided that she would not tell her mother about what her stepfather did when she was not there: the quiet bullying and control, the games of cat and mouse. Her mother kept her own secrets, secrets that grew harder to hide as Natasha came of age.
When Natasha was nineteen and away at college, her stepfather shot her mother dead on the driveway outside their home.
With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Memorial Drive is a compelling and searching look at a shared human experience of sudden loss and absence, and a piercing glimpse at the enduring ripple effects of white racism and domestic abuse. Luminous, urgent, and visceral, it cements Trethewey''s position as one of the most important voices in America today.>
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