Last Children of Mill Creek (eBook)

Vivian Gibson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
150 Seiten
Belt Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-948742-79-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A bestselling memoir of a vibrant childhood spent in a thriving St. Louis African American community before "e;urban renewal"e; changed everything. Vivian Gibson grew up in Mill Creek Valley, a segregated working-class neighborhood in St. Louis that was razed in 1959 to build a highway, an act of racism disguised under urban renewal as "e;progress."e; A moving memoir of family life at a time very different from the present, The Last Children of Mill Creek chronicles the everyday lived experiences of Gibson's large family-her seven siblings, her crafty, college-educated mother, and her hard-working father-and the friends, shop owners, church ladies, teachers, and others who made Mill Creek into a warm, tight-knit African American community. In Gibson's words, "e;This memoir is about survival, as told from the viewpoint of a watchful young girl-a collection of decidedly universal stories that chronicle the extraordinary lives of ordinary people."e;Winner of a Missouri Humanities award for literary achievement, The Last Children of Mill Creek is an important book for anyone interested in urban development, race, and community history-or for anyone who was once a child. Praise for The Last Children of Mill Creek2022 Missouri Author of the Year WinnerMissouri's "e;Great Reads from Great Places"e; Selection for the 2023 National Book Festival "e;This is a story borne aloft by the sheer human joy of storytelling, of memory, of tender love for a mother and a father and for a vanished time and place. It is a book that, while steadfastly refusing the American fiction of color blindness, just as steadfastly refuses to portray Black life through the single warped lens of white-induced pain."e; TheLos Angeles Review of Books

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Schlagworte: 1950s • African-American biography • African-American Memoir • african-american writers • black authors • Black History • black lives • Black woman memoir • Great Migration • Memoir • St. Louis • st. louis history • Women authors • Women's history • women's memoir
• ISBN-10: 1-948742-79-9 / 1948742799
• ISBN-13: 978-1-948742-79-5 / 9781948742795