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ISBN-10: 0393356086
ISBN-13: 9780393356083
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 08/07/2018
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.50" W, 0.70" H

Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys Into Race, Motherhood, and History

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Overview

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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Part memoir, part travelogue, part parental guide, this book is a stunningly beautiful love letter from a mother to her daughter to help her daughter embrace the world she lives in, to introduce her to her ancestors, and prepare her for the future.–Edwidge Danticat, author of The Art of Death
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Details

ISBN-10: 0393356086
ISBN-13: 9780393356083
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 08/07/2018
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.50" W, 0.70" H
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