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by Tracy K. Smith

  • Narrated by: Tracy K. Smith
  • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
  • Release date: 04-06-15
  • Language: English

Tracy K. Smith has a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest in a family of five children raised with limitless affection and a firm belief in God by a stay-at-home mother and an engineer father. But after spending a summer in Alabama at her grandmother’s home, she returns to California with a new sense of what it means for her to be black: from her mother’s memories of picking cotton as a girl in her father’s field for pennies a bushel to her parents’ involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.

These dizzying juxtapositions – between her family’s past, her own comfortable present, and the promise of her future – will eventually compel her to act on her passions for love and “ecstatic possibility” and her desire to become a writer. But when her mother is diagnosed with cancer, which she says is part of God’s plan, Tracy must learn a new way to love and look after someone whose beliefs she has outgrown.

Written with a poet’s precision and economy, this gorgeous, probing kaleidoscope of self and family offers us a universal story of belonging and becoming and the ways we find and lose ourselves amid the places we call home.

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Author

Tracy K. Smith

Language

English

Length

11 hrs and 6 mins

Narrated by

Tracy K. Smith

Release date

04-06-15

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