To Free the Captives (Paperback)

Tracy K. Smith

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Published by Random House USA Inc, New York, 2024

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Paperback. A TIME AND WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR . The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice . A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that explores how we in America might-together-come to a new view of our shared pastA TIME AND WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR . The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice . A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that explores how we in America might-together-come to a new view of our shared past"A vulnerable, honest look at a life lived in a country still struggling with its evils.Hopeful.Beautiful and haunting." -Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author of Begin AgainIn 2020, heartsick from constant assaults on Black life, Tracy K. Smith found herself soul-searching and digging into the historical archive for help navigating the "din of human division and strife." With lyricism and urgency, Smith draws on several avenues of thinking-personal, documentary, and spiritual-to understand who we are as a nation and what we might hope to mean to one another.To Free the Captives touches down in Sunflower, Alabama, the red-dirt town where Smith's father's family comes from, and where her grandfather returned after World War I with a hero's record but difficult prospects as a Black man. Smith considers his life and the life of her father through the lens of history. Hoping to connect with their strength and continuance, she assembles a new terminology of American life.Bearing courageous witness to the terms of Freedom afforded her as a Black woman, a mother, and an educator in the twenty-first century, Smith etches a portrait of where we find ourselves four hundred years into the American experiment. Weaving in an account of her growing spiritual practice, she argues that the soul is not merely a private site of respite or transcendence, but a tool for fulfilling our duties to each other, and a sounding board for our most pressing collective questions: Where are we going as a nation? Where have we been? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
To Free the Captives (Paperback)
Author
Tracy K. Smith
Publisher
Random House USA Inc, New York
Publication year
2024
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Paperback
Language
English
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