Ordinary Notes

Title: Ordinary Notes Author: Christina Sharpe ISBN: 9780374604486 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Published: 2023 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Memoir 1561075 Publisher Description: A finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction Critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, "Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . . . and yet always finds a way to beauty and possibility" (Saidiya Hartman). A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the past--public ones alongside others that are poignantly personal--with present realities and possible futures, intricately constr