Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir

Ordinary Hazards: A MemoirIn her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse. Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night and

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Drawing on the experience of their own abduction

and Sheridan each have an “ex” in their lives

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Mulberry Street Stories uphold the perseverance of hope despite intergenerational trauma and demonstrate the interconnection of human lives throughout time

Africans in the streets of Dublin are a common sight

wide travel

and historical issues related to race in Brazil

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780997772074

JohnsonQuincy JonesElizabeth KeckleyShelton Jackson "Spike" LeeWilliam LeidesdorffReginald F

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1955270619

but instead they’re soon running in the city’s underground