{"product_id":"ordinary-light-a-memoir","title":"Ordinary Light: A Memoir","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eOrdinary Light: A Memoir\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eTracy K Smith\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780307962669\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eKnopf\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2015\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e368\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Book Award Finalist \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the dazzlingly original Pulitzer Prize-winning poet hailed for her \"extraordinary range and ambition\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e): 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Light \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn lucid, clear prose, Smith interrogates her childhood in suburban California, her first collision with independence at Harvard, and her Alabama-born parents' recollections of their own youth in the Civil 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 become a writer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShot through with exquisite lyricism, wry humor, and an acute awareness of the beauty of everyday life, \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Light\u003c\/i\u003e is a gorgeous kaleidoscope of self and family, one that skillfully combines a child's and teenager's perceptions with adult retrospection. Here is a universal story of being and becoming, a classic portrait of the ways we find and lose ourselves amid the places we call home.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Ordinary Light: A Memoir | Tracy K Smith | Hardcover | 9780307962669 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks A 1751543","offer_id":48927889981592,"sku":"1751543","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81R7-bGlYpL.jpg?v=1777057887","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/ordinary-light-a-memoir","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}