
Ordinary Light
A Memoir
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Narrated by:
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Tracy K. Smith
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By:
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Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith has a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest in a family of five children raised with limitless affection and a firm belief in God by a stay-at-home mother and an engineer father. But after spending a summer in Alabama at her grandmother's home, she returns to California with a new sense of what it means for her to be Black: from her mother's memories of picking cotton as a girl in her father's field for pennies a bushel to her parents' involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.
These dizzying juxtapositions - between her family's past, her own comfortable present, and the promise of her future - will eventually compel her to act on her passions for love and "ecstatic possibility" and her desire to become a writer. But when her mother is diagnosed with cancer, which she says is part of God's plan, Tracy must learn a new way to love and look after someone whose beliefs she has outgrown.
Written with a poet's precision and economy, this gorgeous, probing kaleidoscope of self and family offers us a universal story of belonging and becoming and the ways we find and lose ourselves amid the places we call home.
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Simply spoken - poetic
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Yes. It is my story.....or very close to it! I totally get it!What did you like best about this story?
Smith’s description of what “home” is floored me. I knew after 20 minutes this book had me hooked. I listened to it in one day. I absolutely identify with this book. The words, cadence, story…all of it! This is a great memoir. If you happen to be from Northern, California you will find yourself absolutely hooked. Loved…loved…loved this book.Which scene was your favorite?
There are too many. Again the description of home was perfection.Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I laughed and cried.Absolutely Fantastic!
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Compelling
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Deeply touching
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Tracy tells her own story well, using both the written and spoken word. Her narration is occasionally awkward, her self-reflections are somewhat wordy, but it's well worth the time and credit.
Beautiful and Poetic
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I really enjoyed listing to this audio. It made me stop and think about my life
Ordinary Light
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Wordy
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—Rev. Stephen York, Maine
Outstanding memoir!
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