Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter by Foster, Patricia
Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter by Foster, Patricia

Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter

Deeply personal essays probing the lingering legacies of the southern social divide In Written in the Sky:...
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Author: Patricia Foster
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Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter by Foster, Patricia

Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter

BD$62.54
Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter by Foster, Patricia

Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter

BD$62.54
Author: Patricia Foster
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Deeply personal essays probing the lingering legacies of the southern social divide

In Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter, Patricia Foster presents a double portrait of place and family, a book of deeply personal essays that interrogate the legacy of racial tensions in the South, the constriction of caste and gender, and the ways race, class, and white privilege are entwined in her family story. After interviewing girls at Booker T. Washington High School in Tuskegee, Alabama, visiting the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, and exploring Africatown in Plateau, Alabama, Patricia Foster was moved to reflect on the racial scars and crossroads in her southern past as well as to reckon with the intimate places of her own wounding and grief.

The story of place, she discovers, emerges not only from family histories and cultural traditions but also from wrestling with a culture's irreconcilable ideas: the hard push to determine what matters. What matters to her are the shadow stories beneath our mythologies, the complicated and radiant narratives that must be excavated and reckoned with, stories that have no neat or binary resolution, stories full of luminous moments and riveting facts, and stories where the secrets hide. Written in the Sky presents the best of nonfiction storytelling: searingly honest portraits, dramatic encounters, and lyrical narratives that will interest teachers and students as well as social justice advocates, policymakers, and readers compelled by stories of awakening and the white-hot beauty of language.


Author: Patricia Foster
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: 09/26/2023
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780817360962

About the Author
Patricia Foster is professor emerita at the University of Iowa's MFA Program in Nonfiction, where she taught for twenty-five years. She is author of numerous books, including Girl from Soldier Creek, Just Beneath My Skin, and All the Lost Girls: Confessions of a Southern Daughter.

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