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First Published:
Aug 2023, 272 pages
Paperback:
Aug 6, 2024, 272 pages
Book Reviewed by:
Valerie Morales
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In his memoir, award-winning poet Shane McCrae reflects upon a singular traumatic event: his brazen kidnapping by his maternal grandparents. "It's like living for 40 years as a murdered person, and then realizing that you're dead." At the age of three, his grandparents took him from Oregon to Texas after a weekend visit, without his father's permission. It was years before Shane discovered two truths. His black father had not abandoned him, as his white grandparents repeatedly said. And his mother had been threatened. If she made mention of Shane's whereabouts, she would never see him again.
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping is McCrae's attempt to piece together his childhood. He admits his recollection is sometimes vague and indefinite, because trauma reshapes episodic memory. What he is clear about is the physical and psychological abuse he endured. His ...
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