Guidebook to Relative Strangers Paperback by Camille T Dungy

Product Details

• Publisher: WW Norton (2018-08-07)
• Language: English
• Pages: 256
• ISBN-13: 9780393356083
• Weight: 208.66 grams
• Dimensions: 20.83 x 13.87 x 1.47 cm

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Colorado Book Award

As a working mother and poet-lecturer, Camille Dungy’s livelihood depended on travel. She crisscrossed America and beyond with her daughter in tow, history shadowing their steps, always intensely aware of how they were perceived, not just as mother and child but as black women. From the San Francisco of settlers’ dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana, from snow-white Maine to a festive yet threatening bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods, Dungy finds fear and trauma but also mercy, kindness, and community. Penetrating and generous, this is an essential guide for a troubled land.

About the Author

Camille T. Dungy is an award-winning poet and editor and professor of creative writing at Colorado State University. She lives with her husband and child in Fort Collins, Colorado.