Bibliograph

The love you save, a memoir, Goldie Taylor

Type

Label

The love you save, a memoir, Goldie Taylor

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The love you save

Oclc number

1351894293

Responsibility statement

Goldie Taylor

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

At age eleven, Goldie Taylor is out riding her bike when she is raped by a young man from the neighborhood. Unable to cope, her mother sends her to live with her aunt in a bottomed-out neighborhood in East St. Louis. Aunt Gerald takes in anyone who asks, but the conditions are harsh. With no bed or personal belongings, Goldie sleeps on the living room floor, beneath a threadbare blanket, amid cousins who abuse her. But Goldie discovers a secret. She can find kinship among writers like James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. She can find hope in the form of a nurturing teacher who helps her find her voice. And books, she realizes, can save her life. Goldie Taylor's debut memoir shines a light on the strictures of race, class and gender in a post-Jim Crow America while offering a nuanced, empathetic portrait of a family in a pitched battle for its very soul

Target audience

adult

Classification