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Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

by Margo Jefferson

★ Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction ★ New York Time’s Notable Book

The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson has lived in the thrall of a cast of others—her parents and maternal grandmother, jazz luminaries, writers, artists, athletes, and stars. These are the figures who thrill and trouble her, and who have made up her sense of self as a person and as a writer. In her much-anticipated follow-up to Neg

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 2022
Format: Print edition
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781524748173

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Biography & Autobiography: Cultural. Ethnic. & Regional – African American & Black Biography & Autobiography: Personal Memoirs Literary Criticism: Feminists (Literary Criticism)Psychology: Psychopathology – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

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