The Secret Life of a Black Aspie: A Memoir

Author:   Anand Prahlad
Publisher:   University of Alaska Press
ISBN:  

9781602233218


Pages:   237
Publication Date:   15 February 2017
Format:   Paperback
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Anand Prahlad was born on a former plantation in Virginia in 1954. This memoir, vividly internal, powerfully lyric, and brilliantly impressionistic, is his story.   For the first four years of his life, Prahlad didn’t speak. But his silence didn’t stop him from communicating—or communing—with the strange, numinous world he found around him. Ordinary household objects came to life; the spirits of long-dead slave children were his best friends. In his magical interior world, sensory experiences blurred, time disappeared, and memory was fluid. Ever so slowly, he emerged, learning to talk and evolving into an artist and educator. His journey takes readers across the United States during one of its most turbulent moments, and Prahlad experiences it all, from the heights of the Civil Rights Movement to West Coast hippie enclaves to a college town that continues to struggle with racism and its border state legacy.   Rooted in black folklore and cultural ambience, and offering new perspectives on autism and more, The Secret Life of a Black Aspie will inspire and delight readers and deepen our understanding of the marginal spaces of human existence.

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Author:   Anand Prahlad
Publisher:   University of Alaska Press
Imprint:   University of Alaska Press
Dimensions:   Width: 1.70cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 2.30cm
Weight:   0.397kg
ISBN:  

9781602233218


ISBN 10:   1602233217
Pages:   237
Publication Date:   15 February 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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-Read it and weep tears of inferiority, knowing you will never write anything as beautiful and transcendent.---Harvard Bookstore


Readers won t easily forget this prismatic and powerful story of an atypical life. --Starred review Booklist


Read it and weep tears of inferiority, knowing you will never write anything as beautiful and transcendent. --Harvard Bookstore


Readers won't easily forget this prismatic and powerful story of an atypical life. --Starred review Booklist


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Anand Prahlad is director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and the author of two books of poems, Hear My Song and Other Poems and As Good as Mango.

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