{"product_id":"ordinary-notes-paperback","title":"Ordinary Notes - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristina Sharpe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of 2023 by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, and Barnes and Noble\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA singular achievement, \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Notes\u003c\/i\u003e 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--together 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, and memory, sometimes about history, art, photography, and literature, always attend, with exquisite care, to the ordinary-extraordinary dimensions of Black life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eColor art throughout\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristina Sharpe\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Wake: On Blackness and Being\u003c\/i\u003e--named by \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the best books of 2016--and \u003ci\u003eMonstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University, in Toronto, where she lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 392\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.7 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 22, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176758395129,"sku":"9781250872241","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/U__grC0O7Q9781250872241.webp?v=1767686618","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/ordinary-notes-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}