The Golden Road
Notes on My Gentrification
$47.47
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
29 January 2008
Summary
The true story of a remarkable young woman’s struggle to find a home in the worldCaille Millner is a rising star on the literary scene. A graduate of Harvard University, she was first published at age sixteen and was recently named one of Columbia Journalism Review’s Ten Young Writers on the Rise. The Golden Road is Millner’s clear-eyed and transfixing memoir. From her childhood in a Latino neighborhood in San Jose, California, and coming of age in a more affluent yet quietly hostile Silicon …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143112976 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 014311297X |
| Author: | Caille Millner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 29 January 2008 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
A sharp-minded, elegantly written memoir … Frank and dryly humorous.
“A sharp-minded, elegantly written memoir … Frank and dryly humorous.”
-San Francisco Chronicle
“Intriguing … Millner’s searingly honest Road takes readers into a little-known experience.”
-Essence
“[Millner’s] clear-eyed, breezy recollections, delivered with a light touch, win us over.”
-The New York Times Book Review
About The Author
Caille Millner
Caille Millner was first published at age sixteen and recently named one of Columbia Journalism Review’s Ten Young Writers on the Rise. She is the co-author of The Promise- How One Woman Made Good on her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of First Graders to College and her work also appeared in Children of the Dream- Our Own Stories of Growing Up Black In America. She’s received the Rona Jaffe Fiction Award, as well as prizes from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, the National Press Club and the New York Black Journalists Association. Currently on the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle, she has also written for Newsweek, Essence, The Washington Post and The Fader.
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