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In Ordinary Light, Pulitzer Prize‑winning poet Tracy K. Smith reflects on her suburban California upbringing, her family's deep roots in the Civil Rights movement, and her Southern grandmother’s stories of cotton fields. As she confronts her mother's cancer diagnosis, Smith navigates the shifting terrain of faith, love, and self‑definition, weaving poetry’s lyrical precision into a candid exploration of identity, belonging, and the unbreakable mother‑daughter bond.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Tracy K. Smith
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