P&P Live!: Natasha Trethewey – Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir – in conversation with Lisa Page

At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became.

Memorial Drive is a compelling and searching look at a shared human experience of sudden loss and absence, but also a piercing glimpse at the enduring ripple effects of white racism and domestic abuse.

Trethewey will be in conversation with Lisa Page, co-editor of We Wear The Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America and Assistant Professor of English at the George Washington University.