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Paris, Rae: The Forgetting Tree: A Rememory

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Wayne State University Press (paperback, 2017)

Publisher Marketing:Rae Paris began writingThe Forgetting Tree: A Rememoryin 2010, while traveling the United States, visiting sites of racial trauma, horror, and defiance. The desire to do this work came from being a child of parents born and raised in New Orleans during segregation, who ultimately left for California in the late 1950s. After the death of her father in 2011, the fiction Paris had been writing gave way to poetry and short prose, which were heavily influenced by the questions she’d long been considering about narrative, power, memory, and freedom. The need to write this story became even more personal and pressing.

While Paris sometimes uses the genre of “memoir” or “hybrid memoir” when referring to her work, in this case the term “rememory,” born from Toni Morrison’sBeloved, feels most accurate. Paris is driven by the familial and historical spaces and by what happens when we remember seemingly disparate images and moments. The collection is not fully prose or poetry, but rather an elegy for those who have passed through us.

A perfect blend of prose, poetry, and images,The Forgetting Treeis a unique and thought-provoking collection that argues for a deeper understanding of past and present so that we might imagine a more hopeful, sustainable, and loving future.

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