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