ممفیس رمانی نوشته تارا ام استرینگ فلو است که زندگی سه نسل از یک خانواده سیاه پوست را در ممفیس، که شهری در ایالت تنسی است نشان می دهد. این رمان از سال 1937 تا 2003 را در بر می گیرد و رویدادهای تاریخی مختلفی مانند جنگ جهانی دوم، جنبش حقوق مدنی و جنگ در افغانستان را پوشش می دهد. این رمان توسط چهار زن از یک خانواده روایت می شود: هیزل، میریام، جوآن و میا. هر یک از آنها با چالش ها و آسیب های مختلف مانند نژادپرستی، خشونت خانگی، سوء استفاده جنسی و اعتیاد روبرو هستند. این رمان همچنین به بررسی مضامین هویت، خانواده، عشق و بخشش می‌پردازد.
Memphis is a novel by Tara M. Stringfellow that traces the lives of three generations of a Black family in Memphis, Tennessee. The novel spans from 1937 to 2003 and covers various historical events such as World War II, the civil rights movement, and the war in Afghanistan. The novel is narrated by four women of the same family: Hazel, Miriam, Joan, and Mya. They each face different challenges and traumas, such as racism, domestic violence, sexual abuse, and addiction. The novel also explores the themes of identity, family, love, and forgiveness.
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Summer 1995: Ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father’s explosive temper and seek refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis. This is not the first time violence has altered the course of the family’s trajectory. Half a century earlier, Joan’s grandfather built this majestic house in the historic Black neighborhood of Douglass—only to be lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in the city. Joan tries to settle into her new life, but family secrets cast a longer shadow than any of them expected.
As she grows up, Joan finds relief in her artwork, painting portraits of the community in Memphis. One of her subjects is their enigmatic neighbor Miss Dawn, who claims to know something about curses, and whose stories about the past help Joan see how her passion, imagination, and relentless hope are, in fact, the continuation of a long matrilineal tradition. Joan begins to understand that her mother, her mother’s mother, and the mothers before them persevered, made impossible choices, and put their dreams on hold so that her life would not have to be defined by loss and anger—that the sole instrument she needs for healing is her paintbrush.
Unfolding over seventy years through a chorus of unforgettable voices that move back and forth in time, Memphis paints an indelible portrait of inheritance, celebrating the full complexity of what we pass down, in a family and as a country: brutality and justice, faith and forgiveness, sacrifice and love.
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