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Bezig met laden... Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse (editie 2022)door Alora Young (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkWalking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse door Alora Young
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. An ambitious project that comes together so beautifully. Alora paints a picture of her foremothers imagining the details of their daily lives while sharing a powerful narrative about protecting childhood, transitioning to womanhood and being a Black woman in America through the centuries including present day. The author’s audiobook narration is moving and powerful and adds to the already exceptional piece. ( ) I'm impressed that someone so young was able to produce a work that will hopefully be read by their own family for generations to come. While some entries were repetitive and did not add to the overall memoir, this novel in verse had a lot to offer, and I could see this being offered to middle-grade, young adult, and adult audiences alike. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"A true American epic in verse, Walking Gentry Home tells the story of Alora Young's ancestors, from the unnamed women the historical record has forgotten but Alora brings to life through imagination; to Amy, the first of her foremothers to arrive in Tennessee, buried in an unmarked grave unlike the white man who enslaved her and fathered her child; through Alora's great-grandmother Gentry, unhappily married at fourteen; to her own mother, the teenage beauty queen rejected by her white neighbors; down to Alora in the present day as she leaves childhood behind and becomes a young woman. The lives of these women come together to form a narrative that speaks of generational curses, coming of age, homes and small towns, fleeting loves and lasting consequences, and the brutal and ever-present legacy of slavery in the American South. Each poem is a story-in-verse and together they form an arresting saga. Both heart-wrenching and inspiring, this unique family memoir finds joy and pride where others might only see despair. Informed by archival research, the will and testament of a slaver, formal interviews, family lore, and even a DNA test, Walking Gentry Home gives voice to those most often muted: Black girls and women in America."-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)811.6Literature English (North America) American poetry 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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