Memorial Drive – Book Review, Harvard Review

In this review of Natasha Trethewey’s memoir Memorial Drive, I explore the poet’s reconstruction of memory, violence, and grief after her mother’s murder. My analysis centers on Trethewey’s craft — her use of shifting perspectives, temporal movement, and the second person voice — as a mirror of trauma and survival. The piece considers how Memorial Drivetransforms suffering into story, and how the act of writing becomes an act of reclamation.