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June 30, 2016

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

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

By Lauret Savoy.  Counterpoint Press: Berkeley, CA, 2015.

Trace won the 2016 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.  It ​was ​also ​a finalist for the 2016 PEN American Open Book Award, the Phillis Wheatley Book Award, and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.  Listen to a recent public radio interview on “To the Best of Our Knowledge.”

In this powerful and provocative meditation on place, race, and the unvoiced presence of the past, Lauret Savoy ...