Ordinary light: a memoir - Tracy K. Smith

The dazzling memoir from U.

Poet Laureate Tracy K.

Smith, author of Wade in the Water and Life on Mars .

Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times , The Washington Post , San Francisco Chronicle , Denver Post , and Oprah.

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.