![]() From there it circles back to Smith’s early childhood, tracing her growth not just as a writer, but as someone who must learn the hard lessons of puberty and early adulthood, as well as what it means to be a black woman growing up in suburban California. Ordinary Life begins with a harrowing scene at the deathbed of Smith’s mother, who died in 1994. This month, Knopf publishes Smith’s fourth book, a memoir, Ordinary Light. When Life on Mars (Graywolf, 2011), her third collection, won the Pulitzer Prize, Smith skyrocketed to a level of fame that transcends the insular world of poetry-making now the perfect time for her to publish a book in prose. Smith has had a successful career as a poet: her first two collections, The Body’s Question and Duende (Graywolf, 20), won major awards, and she began teaching at Princeton following her first book. ![]()
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