Smith, Tracy K. <br/><br/>
Ordinary light :  a memoir 
/ Tracy K. Smith 
 - First edition. 
 - New York  : Vintage Books  , 2015 
 - 349 p.  ; 21 cm 
<br/><br/>Prologue: The Miracle -- I. My Book House -- Wild Kingdom -- Spirits and Demons -- Kin -- Leroy -- A Home in the World -- II. MGM -- Little Feats of Daring -- Total Adventure -- Book a Big Band -- A Necessary Rite -- Humor -- III. Uninvisible -- The Night Stalker -- Hot & Fast -- Shame -- Mother -- Epistolary -- Positive -- IV. Kathleen -- Something Better -- The Woman at the Well -- A Strange Thing to Do -- I, Too -- Testimony -- V.  Another Dialect of the Soul -- Something Powerful at Her Side -- A Strange After -- Abide -- Clearances -- Epilogue: Dear God. 
<br/><br/> A memoir about the author's coming of age as she grapples with her identity as an artist, her family's racial history, and her mother's death from cancer. 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/> National Book Award finalist. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780345804075 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Smith, Tracy K.---Framily
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African American women authors----Biography<br/>Mothers---Death---United States<br/>Mothers and daughters---United States<br/>Coming of age<br/>Home---Psychological aspects<br/>African Americans---Race identity<br/>Identity (Psychology)---United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3619.M5955  / Z46 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>92 SMI