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Guidebook to Relative Strangers

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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Colorado Book Award

As a working mother and poet-lecturer, Camille Dungy's livelihood depended on travel. She crisscrossed America and beyond with her daughter in tow, history shadowing their steps, always intensely aware of how they were perceived, not just as mother and child but as black women. From the San Francisco of settlers' dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana, from snow-white Maine to a festive yet threatening bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods, Dungy finds fear and trauma but also mercy, kindness, and community. Penetrating and generous, this is an essential guide for a troubled land.


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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Kindle Book

  • Release date: June 13, 2017

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780393253764
  • File size: 1159 KB
  • Release date: June 13, 2017

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780393253764
  • File size: 1159 KB
  • Release date: June 13, 2017

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

Languages

English

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Colorado Book Award

As a working mother and poet-lecturer, Camille Dungy's livelihood depended on travel. She crisscrossed America and beyond with her daughter in tow, history shadowing their steps, always intensely aware of how they were perceived, not just as mother and child but as black women. From the San Francisco of settlers' dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana, from snow-white Maine to a festive yet threatening bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods, Dungy finds fear and trauma but also mercy, kindness, and community. Penetrating and generous, this is an essential guide for a troubled land.


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