Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

"Constructing a Nervous System" by Jefferson, Margo, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. CARNEGIE MEDAL FINALIST • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From "one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism (Cathy Park Hong, New York Times bestselling author of Minor Feelings ) comes a memoir "as electric as the title suggests" (Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom ). The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson has lived in the thrall of a cast of others—her parents and maternal grandmother, jazz luminaries, writers, artists, athletes, and stars. These are the figures who thrill and trouble her, and who have made up her sense of self as a person and as a writer. In her much-anticipated follow-up to Negroland , Jefferson brings these figures to life in a memoir of stunning originality, a performance of the elements that comprise and occupy the mind of one of our foremost critics. In Constructing a Nervous System , Jefferson shatters... Book details: published 2022. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.