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Ordinary Light : a Memoir by Smith, Tracy K. is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Ordinary Light : a Memoir about?
From the dazzlingly original Pulitzer Prize-winning poet hailed for her extraordinary range and ambition (The New York Times Book Review): a quietly potent memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter. The youngest of five children, Tracy K. Smith was raised with limitless affection and a firm belief in God by a stay-at-home mother and an engineer father. But just as Tracy is about to leave home for college, her mother is diagnosed with cancer, a condition she accepts as part of God s plan. Ordinary Light is the story of a young woman struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America. In lucid, clear prose, Smith interrogates her childhood in suburban California, her first collision with independence at Harvard, and her Alabama-bornparents recollections oftheir own youth in theCivil Rights era. These dizzying juxtapositions of her family s past, her own comfortable present, and the promise of her future will in due course compel Tracy to act on her passions for love and ecstatic possibility, and her desire to be
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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Smith, Tracy K.
- Publisher
- Vintage books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780345804075
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.83 / 5 (16 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14