The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification - Hardcover

Millner, Caille

2.87

124 ratings by Goodreads

9781594201097: The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594201099 ISBN 13: 9781594201097

Publisher: Penguin Press, 2007

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A coming-of-age memoir of an African-American woman's quest for home and identity in a series of communities describes how her parents were both saved and compromised by their relocation to California and how the author herself struggled with the promises and realities of white suburbs and college life.

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Review:

A sharp-minded, elegantly written memoir . . . Frank and dryly humorous.
"San Francisco Chronicle"
Intriguing . . . Millners searingly honest "Road" takes readers into a little-known experience.
"Essence"
[Millners] clear-eyed, breezy recollections, delivered with a light touch, win us over.
"The New York Times Book Review"

aA sharp-minded, elegantly written memoir . . . Frank and dryly humorous.a
a"San Francisco Chronicle"
aIntriguing . . . Millneras searingly honest "Road" takes readers into a little-known experience.a
a"Essence"
a[Millneras] clear-eyed, breezy recollections, delivered with a light touch, win us over.a
a"The New York Times Book Review"

"A sharp-minded, elegantly written memoir . . . Frank and dryly humorous."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"Intriguing . . . Millner's searingly honest Road takes readers into a little-known experience."
-Essence
"[Millner's] clear-eyed, breezy recollections, delivered with a light touch, win us over."
-The New York Times Book Review

About the Author:

Born in San Jose in 1979, Caille Millner was first published at age sixteen, and she was recently named one of Columbia Journalism Review's Ten Young Writers on the Rise. A graduate of Harvard University, she is the coauthor of Doubleday's The Promise: How One Woman Made Good on Her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of First Graders to College and her work also appeared in Atria's Children of the Dream: Our Own Stories of Growing Up Black in America. She's received the Rona Jaffe Fiction Award as well as prizes from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, the National Press Club, and the New York Black Journalists Association. Currently on the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle, she has also written for Newsweek, Essence, The Washington Post, and The Fader.

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