{"product_id":"ordinary-notes","title":"Ordinary Notes","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2023 HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS BOOK CIRCLE AWARD IN NONFICTION\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES • THE GLOBE AND MAIL • GRANTA • THE NEW YORKER • \u003c\/i\u003eCBC • \u003ci\u003eVULTURE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eTHE ATLANTIC • KIRKUS REVIEWS • PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • \u003c\/i\u003eBARNES AND NOBLE \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe critically acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Wake\u003c\/i\u003e, “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).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I wanted to write about \u003ci\u003esilences\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eterror\u003c\/i\u003e and acts that hover over generations, over centuries. I began by writing about my mother and grandmother.” —from “Note 18” in \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Notes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA singular achievement, \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Notes\u003c\/i\u003e explores with immense care profound questions about loss, and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 brief and urgent 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-day realities and possible futures, intricately constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence. Through the striking images and words in these pages, themes and tones echo: sometimes about life, art, language, beauty, memory; sometimes about history, photography, and literature—but always attending, with exquisite care, to the ordinary-extraordinary dimensions of Black life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the heart of \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Notes\u003c\/i\u003e is the indelible presence of the author’s mother, Ida Wright Sharpe. “I learned to see in my mother’s house,” writes Sharpe. “I learned how not to see in my mother’s house . . . My mother gifted me a love of beauty, a love of words.” Using these and other gifts and ways of seeing, Sharpe steadily summons a chorus of voices and experiences to become present on the page. She articulates and follows an aesthetic of \"beauty as a method,” collects entries from a community of thinkers towards a “Dictionary of Untranslatable Blackness,” and rigorously examines sites of memory and memorial. And in the process, she forges a new literary form, as multivalent as the ways of Black being it traces.","brand":"Christina Sharpe (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":51769080348888,"sku":"9781039000605","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2770\/5320\/files\/cover-9781039000605.jpg?v=1780343403","url":"https:\/\/destiil.com\/products\/ordinary-notes","provider":"De Stiil Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}