Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

by Lauret Savoy

Book Overview

With a New Preface by the Author

Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America's still unfolding history and ideas of "race" have marked its people and the land.

Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1619028255
• ISBN13: 9781619028258
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"