Ordinary Notes

Ordinary Notes
Ordinary Notes
Ordinary Notes

This title has a release date of April 25, 2023. See below for more information.

Written by: Christina Sharpe

Publisher: Knopf

Ordinary Notes Release Date

Ordinary Notes releases April 25, 2023

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April 25, 2023

Ordinary Notes Release Date

Ordinary Notes released on April 25, 2023.

Ordinary Notes Synopsis

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 constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence. The themes and tones that echo through these pages, sometimes about language, beauty, memory; sometimes about history, art, photography, and literature–always attend, with exquisite care, to the ordinary-extraordinary dimensions of Black life.

At the heart of Ordinary Notes 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 gifts and other ways of seeing, Sharpe steadily summons a chorus of voices and experiences to the page. She practices an aesthetic of “beauty as a method,” collects entries from a community of thinkers toward a “Dictionary of Untranslatable Blackness,” and rigorously examines sites of memory and memorial. And in the process, she forges a brilliant new literary form, as multivalent as the ways of Black being it traces.

Genre: Nonfiction

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