Blends memoir, criticism, and performance art for a unique narrative experience
Features dramatized alter egos and fragments from family, historical figures, and literary works
Explores intersections of race, class, and feminism in American cultural life
Intimate and vivid storytelling with poetic and critical insights
Includes quotes and dialogues from historical figures and writers
Summarized by Shop
Jefferson's candor, and the courage and rigor of her critic's mind, recall a number of America's greatest thinkers. --Tracy K. Smith, The New York Times Book Review
The award-winning critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson has lived in the thrall of a cast of others--her parents and maternal grandmother, jazz luminaries, writers, artists, at
Author
Margo Jefferson
Publisher
Pantheon, Vintage, Granta Books, or Penguin Random House (varies by edition)
Publication Date
April 11, 2023 or April 12, 2022
Pages
208
ISBN-10
152474817X or 9780525565710
ISBN-13
9781524748173 or 9780525565710
Language
English
Format
Hardcover or Paperback
Dimensions
5 x 0.66 x 7.5 inches (hardcover) or 8.5 x 0.5 x 10.5 inches (paperback)
