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050	0	0	_aPS3619.M5955 _bZ46 2015
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100	1		_aSmith, Tracy K.
245	1	0	_aOrdinary light : _ba memoir _c/ Tracy K. Smith
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York _b: Vintage Books _c, 2015
300			_a349 p. _c; 21 cm
505	0		_aPrologue: 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.
520	2		_aA 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.
546			_aEnglish
586			_aNational Book Award finalist.
600	1	4	_aSmith, Tracy K. _x-Framily
650		4	_aAfrican American women authors _v--Biography
650		4	_aMothers _z-United States _x-Death
650		4	_aMothers and daughters _z-United States
650		4	_aComing of age
650		4	_aHome _x-Psychological aspects
650			_aAfrican Americans _x-Race identity
650		4	_aIdentity (Psychology) _z-United States
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