Memorial Drive PRH Staff Picks The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America

It is also a testament to the power of family—the ones you're born in and the ones you choose

It will help readers reflect on and learn the long history of canceling

Some things never change

Memorial Drive PRH Staff Picks The Birth of a Nation*ships in 7 10 business days* At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became. With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac,