Description: Who I Always Was by Theresa Okokon Brand New Arc Copy Paperback Genre: African American biography When Theresa Okokon was nine, her father traveled to his hometown in Nigeria to attend his mothers funeraland never returned. His mysterious death shattered Theresa as her familys world unraveled. Now a storyteller and television cohost, Okokon sets out to explore the ripple effects of that profound loss and the way heartache shapes our sense of self and of the worldfor the rest of our lives. Using her grief and her fathers death as a backdrop, Okokon delves deeply into intrinsic themes of Blackness, African spirituality, family, abandonment, belonging, and the seemingly endless, unrequited romantic pursuits of a Black woman who came of age as a Black girl in Wisconsin suburbs where she wasin many waysalways an anomaly. DVD
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Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Inscribed: No
Intended Audience: Adults, Young Adults
Edition: arc
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Type: biography
Era: 2000s
Personalized: No
Features: Uncorrected Proof, arc, advance readers copy
Unit Quantity: DVD
Book Title: Who I Always Was : a Memoir
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Atria Books
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: Women, Personal Memoirs
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 15.8 Oz
Item Length: 8.4 in
Author: Theresa Okokon
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
