Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Family Relationships, Motherhood, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Camille T. Dungy | ISBN: | 9780393253764 |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company | Publication: | June 13, 2017 |
| Imprint: | W. W. Norton & Company | Language: | English |
| Author: | Camille T. Dungy |
| ISBN: | 9780393253764 |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Publication: | June 13, 2017 |
| Imprint: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Language: | English |
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
A 2018 Colorado Book Award Finalist
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.
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
A 2018 Colorado Book Award Finalist
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.
