Book : Surviving The White Gaze A Memoir - Carroll, Rebecca

-Titulo Original : Surviving The White Gaze A Memoir

-Fabricante :

Simon & Schuster

-Descripcion Original:

An Esquire Best Book of 2021 A “gorgeous and powerful” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir from cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood to forge her identity as a Black woman in America. Rebecca Carroll grew up the only Black person in her rural New Hampshire town. Adopted at birth by artistic parents who believed in peace, love, and zero population growth, her early childhood was loving and idyllic-and yet she couldn’t articulate the deep sense of isolation she increasingly felt as she grew older. Everything changed when she met her birth mother, a young white woman, who consistently undermined Carroll’s sense of her Blackness and self-esteem. Carroll’s childhood became harrowing, and her memoir explores the tension between the aching desire for her birth mother’s acceptance, the loyalty she feels toward her adoptive parents, and the search for her racial identity. As an adult, Carroll forged a path from city to city, struggling along the way with difficult boyfriends, depression, eating disorders, and excessive drinking. Ultimately, through the support of her chosen Black family, she was able to heal. “Generous, intimate, searching, and formidable” ( The Boston Globe), Surviving the White Gaze is a timely examination of racism and racial identity in America today. Review “Gorgeous and powerful… In nuanced and richly textured scenes, Carroll reminds us how identity, particularly racial identity, is forged in a thousand different moments… Carroll writes with the urgency and persuasiveness of someone whose life is hanging in the balance, and the result is raw and affecting.” - The New York Times Book Review Carroll unearths complex, uncomfortable truths about legacy and parenthood in her memoir... Her voice is generous, intimate, searching, and formidable, her story excavated from her core and delivered with fervor and clarity. - The Boston Globe Should be required reading. -People Searing....In this vulnerable and layered meditation on race, adoption, and family, chosen and otherwise, Carroll unspools a poignant story of becoming. - Esquire A probing, wise investigation of racial identity... The narrative, which reflects the author’s decades-long, self-initiated rite of passage, is a blunt, urgent study of racial identity. A deeply resonant memoir of hard-won authenticity. - Kirkus Review (starred review) A moving narrative... Carroll’s memoir is intelligent, melancholic, and searching. She reveals that just past survival, it is possible to find peace, and joy. - Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger Carroll shows, page after page, how the journey to, and through, survival, necessitates unrelenting interrogation of the nations cauldron of innocence. Carroll has crafted a book as textured, layered and effective as any memoir penned in the 21st century. - Kiese Laymon, bestselling author of Heavy: An American Memoir In this moving and sobering book, Rebecca Carroll has extraordinary retrospective wisdom. It is a profound study of identity published as the world struggles with the nature of justice, a deeply important book for our time. - Andrew Solomon, the bestselling author of Far from the Tree Rebecca Carroll has devoted her life to sharing, developing, and amplifying our stories-and our story. And in Surviving the White Gaze she tells us hers with the same rigor, the same verve, and the same radical vulnerability that reminds us why were lucky to have her. - Damon Young, bestselling author of What Doesnt Kill You Makes You Blacker Surviving The White Gaze is an absolute gift to the reader: unputdownable, edifying, deeply moving. Rebecca Carroll gives us a candid and singular memoir, one that is both intimate and universal in its storytelling. Its also a witty and riveting portrait of the youthful emergence of one of our finest critics a