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

Written by Lauret Savoy

Narrated by Allyson Johnson

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Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent's past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her-paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land-lie largely eroded and lost.

In this provocative and powerful mosaic of personal journeys and historical inquiry across a continent and time, Savoy explores how the country's still unfolding history, and ideas of "race," have marked her and the land. From twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from "Indian Territory" and the U.S.-Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past.

In distinctive and illuminating prose that is attentive to the rhythms of language and landscapes, she weaves together human stories of migration, silence, and displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 27, 2018
ISBN9781977379078
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The audiobook had a number of times where the chapter just... cut off? In the middle of a sentence? So I'm unsure how much of the book I missed. I liked what I was able to listen to.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Taxi Driver avant le lettre? Recommended to fans of Lagerqvist's The Dwarf, American Psycho, or The Killer inside Me, or maybe Why Does Herr R Run Amok.

    Keep at it until the end when it assumes a Darger-like lyrical intensity.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Parts of this book I really loved, but in the end it didn't quite all come together for me as a coherent whole. (Maybe that is part of the point, but it made for a disjointed, and at time tedious, reading experience.)