Pulling The Chariot Of The Sun A Memoir Of A Kidnapping Shane Mccrae by Shane Mccrae 9781668021767, 1668021765 instant download after payment.

When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him & took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white & his dad was Black, & to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him from his father. In the years that followed, they manipulated & controlled him, refusing to acknowledge his heritage—all the while believing they were doing what was best for him.

For their own safety & to ensure the kidnapping remained a success, Shane's grandparents had to make sure that he never knew the full story, so he was raised to participate in his own disappearance. But despite elaborate fabrications & unreliable memories, Shane begins to reconstruct his own story & to forge his own identity. Gradually, the truth unveils itself, & with the truth, comes a path to reuniting with his father & finding his own place in the world.

A revelatory account of a singularly American childhood that hauntingly echoes the larger story of race in our country, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun is written with the virtuosity & heart of one of the finest poets writing today. And it is also a powerful reflection on what is broken in America—but also what might heal & make it whole again.

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Shane McCrae is the author of several books of poetry, including In the Language of My Captor, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, & the William Carlos Williams Award; Sometimes I Never Suffered, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize; & his most recent collection, Cain Named the Animal. McCrae is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, & a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches at Columbia University & lives in New York City.