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Ordinary Light: A Memoir

About the Book

Ordinary Light: A Memoir

In ORDINARY LIGHT, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Tracy K. Smith tells her remarkable story, giving us a quietly potent memoir that explores her coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter. Here is the story of a young artist struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history and what it means to be black in America.

Ordinary Light: A Memoir
by Tracy K. Smith

  • Publication Date: March 8, 2016
  • Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction
  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN-10: 0345804074
  • ISBN-13: 9780345804075