Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

Native Guard

Natasha Trethewey

52 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history poetry challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South -- where one of the first black regiments, the Louisiana Native Guards, was called into ser...

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Moods

reflective 85%
emotional 77%
sad 42%
challenging 30%
dark 28%
informative 26%
inspiring 10%
hopeful 8%
tense 6%
mysterious 4%

Pace

medium 48%
slow 35%
fast 15%

Average rating

4.22

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