'The last image of my mother, but for the photographs taken of her body at the crime scene, is the formal portrait made only a few months before her death.' Read an excerpt from NTrethewey's new memoir Memorial Drive.
In her startling new memoir, Pulitzer Prize winner and former US poet laureate Natasha Trethewey recounts the event that shattered her life at the age of 19.The last image of my mother, but for the photographs taken of her body at the crime scene, is the formal portrait made only a few months before her death.
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