Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir Free Audiobook Download by Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet and author. Her memoir, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir, recounts her family's history in South Carolina. The poems are divided into different parts of the story. There is one poem for each year of the protagonist's life as she shares memories of childhood, adulthood, and death.

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir is the story of Natasha Trethewey's life with her mother, Mable, who died in a terrorist attack on December 26th, 1998. The memoir is not just about what happened to her, but also how she coped with the aftermath of losing her mother. This audiobook is a work of nonfiction that is beautifully written.

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir is a memoir written by Natasha Trethewey, who was the author of an award-winning book of poetry and a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. This audiobook download is published by Hodder & Stoughton and features Natasha Trethewey reading her own book.

Natasha Trethewey writes about her upbringing in Mississippi with a mother who is a schoolteacher and a father who is an ambitious businessman. Trethewey explores the lighter side of growing up in the Deep South, recounting her family's tales of getting lost in the woods, riding on the back of their pickup truck, visiting relatives and traveling to visit family friends.

Natasha Trethewey, a daughter of the civil rights movement, underwent a difficult childhood and adolescence which prompted her to write in her memoir. The book is written in verse and tells the story of how she finally found peace at the age of 32.

In her debut memoir, Natasha Trethewey takes a journey of grief and self-discovery that has inspired readers and critics into calling it the best memoir of the last decade. In 2005, when Trethewey was in her late twenties, her mother died suddenly after a long battle with breast cancer. As she struggles to come to terms with the loss, she turns to writing as therapy and publishes Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir.