Book review - Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey

Melanie O'Loughlin of Unity Books reviews Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey, published by Bloomsbury. Born to a black mother and a white father in a still-segregated Mississippi, Natasha’s childhood is irrevocably changed when her parents’ divorce and her mother remarries a man, who a decade later, will shoot her mother dead outside their home in Memorial Drive. From the Pulitzer Prize-wining Poet Laureate comes this intimate story of race, family, violence and heart-shattering insight.