The Secret End
About This Novel
"Do you know what it means to have a wound that will never heal?" At the age of nineteen, Natasha Trethewey's mother died at the gunpoint of her stepfather, and her world was turned upside down. Faced with the burden of life and death, she chose to avoid this experience and bury her grief. After thirty years, she finally returned to the crime scene and read through letters, diaries and police files. In the intertwining of memories and reality, she tried to recreate her family's old life in the South, her mother's life experience as a black woman, and her subsequent tragic experience of domestic violence. This book is the first time Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey has fully disclosed this experience. It tells the trauma and lasting impact of domestic violence and racism on individuals and society, and explores how this memory reshaped her own life and made her a poet and writer.
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