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The Last Children of Mill Creek by Vivian Gibson (2020, Trade Paperback)

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Vivian Gibson's bestselling memoir of growing up in the 1950s in a segregated St. Louis neighborhood has been hailed by critics as "a spare, elegant jewel of a work" and "a love letter to Gibson's childhood."

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Publisher
Belt Publishing
ISBN-10
1948742640
ISBN-13
9781948742641
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038408618

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Book Title
Last Children of Mill Creek
Author
Vivian Gibson
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Personal Memoirs, General
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
150 Pages

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Item Length
7.2in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz

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"Gibson's memoir deals with coming of age, loss, the illusory quality of memory, race, and much more in a digestible 160-page package that one could tear through on a single weekend afternoon. It's written with a kind of literary efficiency, spare but descriptive, which leaves you feeling captivated and close to the momentum of the narrative."--Evan Wood, Missouri Life, "A spare, elegant jewel of a work. ... The reader hears in it echoes of Zora Neale Hurston's rich, sensuous descriptions of rural Black culture in Their Eyes Were Watching God . At other times, Gibson's prose channels Gwendolyn Brooks's quiet attentiveness to the beauty and texture of everyday life in Maud Martha . But the book doesn't fit neatly into any of the more predictable plot formulas that white audiences have come to expect in Black coming-of-age narratives: that is, stories where Blackness is primarily defined by its confrontation (and possible reconciliation) with whiteness. The Last Children of Mill Creek is joyful, nostalgic, mischievous -- a love letter to Gibson's childhood. It contains nary a white character. It is more Speak, Memory than I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ; more The Secret Garden than The Autobiography of Malcolm X . Gibson's guiding literary topos is Black childhood as idyll."--Ellen Wayland-Smith in The Los Angeles Review of Books, "Book of the Year ... Vivid, unpretentious, loaded with resonant detail."--John Williams, First Things, " The Last Children of Mill Creek is a critical addition to our understanding and preservation of the people who once lived in the thriving community that was annihilated by city leaders beginning 70 years ago."--Chris Naffziger, St. Louis Magazine, "By declining to add layers of explicit retrospective analysis, [Gibson] makes her childhood world strikingly immediate, and the book's narrative structure reinforces the impression that you have been directly plunged into her memory."--Megan Marz, Times Literary Supplement
Copyright Date
2020
Intended Audience
Trade

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