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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artistâs Memoir of the Jim Crow South
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98
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Readers
99/100Critics
96/100Scholars
Author:
Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly, Bryan Stevenson
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Date:
September 7, 2021
Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Rembert calls forth vibrant scenes of Black life on Cuthbert, Georgia's Hamilton Avenue, where he first glimpsed the possibility of a life outside the cotton field. As he pays tribute, exuberant and heartfelt, to Cuthbert's Black community and the people, including Patsy, who helped him to find the courage to revisit a traumatic past, Rembert brings to life the promise and the danger of Civil Rights protest, the brutalities of incarceration, his search for his mother's love, and the epic bond he found with Patsy.
What The Reviewers Say
Rembert’s memoir is not just a lens through which we can view American history; at its heart it is a love story.
... preserv[es] [Rembert's] easygoing manner and offhand wit in his recounting of otherwise dire circumstances.
Rembert (whose name echoes remember) first told his life story in vivid images carved, tooled, and colored on sheets of leather.
This is a book like no other, from Winfred Rembert’s unique and uniquely powerful autobiographical paintings to his disturbing and courageous life story, frankly told to philosophy professor Kelly.
