Mccrae Shane
Mccrae Shane - Pulling The Chariot Of The Sun A Memoir Of A Kidnapping - Hardcover
Mccrae Shane - Pulling The Chariot Of The Sun A Memoir Of A Kidnapping - Hardcover
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Description: Vulture's #1 Memoir of 2023 An unforgettable lyrical and poignant (The Washington Post) memoir by an award - winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents. When Shane Mc Crae was three years old his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black and to hide his Blackness from him his maternal grandparents stole him from his father. In the years that followed they manipulated and controlled him refusing to acknowledge his heritage all the while believing they were doing what was best for him. For their own safety and to ensure the kidnapping remained a success Shane's grandparents had to make sure that he never knew the full story so he was raised to participate in his own disappearance. But despite elaborate fabrications and unreliable memories Shane begins to reconstruct his own story and to forge his own identity. Gradually the truth unveils itself and with the truth comes a path to reuniting with his father and finding his own place in the world. A revelatory account of an American childhood that hauntingly echoes the larger story of race in our country Pulling the Chariot of the Sun is written with the virtuosity and heart of one of the finest poets writing today. A powerful reflection on what is broken in America this is an essential story for our times (Hilton Als Pulitzer Prize winning author of White Girls) .
Title: Pulling The Chariot Of The Sun A Memoir Of A Kidnapping
Author(s): Mccrae Shane
Publisher: Scribner
Barcode: 9781668021743
Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/1/2023
Category: Memoirs
Description: Vulture's #1 Memoir of 2023 An unforgettable lyrical and poignant (The Washington Post) memoir by an award - winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents. When Shane Mc Crae was three years old his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black and to hide his Blackness from him his maternal grandparents stole him from his father. In the years that followed they manipulated and controlled him refusing to acknowledge his heritage all the while believing they were doing what was best for him. For their own safety and to ensure the kidnapping remained a success Shane's grandparents had to make sure that he never knew the full story so he was raised to participate in his own disappearance. But despite elaborate fabrications and unreliable memories Shane begins to reconstruct his own story and to forge his own identity. Gradually the truth unveils itself and with the truth comes a path to reuniting with his father and finding his own place in the world. A revelatory account of an American childhood that hauntingly echoes the larger story of race in our country Pulling the Chariot of the Sun is written with the virtuosity and heart of one of the finest poets writing today. A powerful reflection on what is broken in America this is an essential story for our times (Hilton Als Pulitzer Prize winning author of White Girls) .
Title: Pulling The Chariot Of The Sun A Memoir Of A Kidnapping
Author(s): Mccrae Shane
Publisher: Scribner
Barcode: 9781668021743
Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/1/2023
Category: Memoirs
