Bailing on this until I decide to get a physical copy as the audiobook narrator did not suit me 😑
Bailing on this until I decide to get a physical copy as the audiobook narrator did not suit me 😑
Rearranging my natural found objects vase... seemed like it fit in with the theme of Trace, which I‘m finding more musing and memoirish than illuminating so far..
#moss #lichen #foundobjects
I'm a huge fan of books that transcend genre, as this does. Part memoir, part geographical discussion, part historical discourse on race and the movement/displacement/settling of people groups over time, fully all of the above, this book is a series of essays and thought trees that lead the reader on winding paths through important perspectives of America. Fascinating and graceful, tragic and timeless.
Structurally similar to White Rage, Trace reads like a series of essays that don‘t fully predict where the next chapter will land. Probably useful for readers new to critiques of majority narratives and how those delete and render invisible minoritized people/experiences. Part travelogue, part nature writing, part memoir, and fully a critique of simplistic histories, Trace mixes many parts to examine the fragmentation of public and private memory.
A beautifully written, enlightening journey which reveals so many of the historical particulars of our evolutions as a place and a people, this is a great book for anyone interested in family, ancestors, American culture, and how we each have come to be where and who we are.