The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification - Hardcover
A coming-of-age memoir of an African-American woman's quest for home and identity in a series of communities describes how her parents were both saved and compromised by their relocation to California and how the author herself struggled with the promises and realities of white suburbs and college life.
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Born in San Jose in 1979, Caille Millner was first published at age sixteen, and she was recently named one of Columbia Journalism Review's Ten Young Writers on the Rise. A graduate of Harvard University, she is the coauthor of Doubleday's 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 Atria's 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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Caille Millner has written an extraordinary book, one that takes us deep into the soul of an exceptional individual and shines a revealing light on an emergent generation. Her poetic prose and probing insights make the journey well worth taking. -- Ellis Cose, author Bone to Pick and Envy of the World
Gentrification-with its tricky constellation of class, race or ethnicity, and place-is a word that usually describes things like inner-city luxury condo developments, and not so often a person's growth, identity or life. Yet it's the apt, clever image Chronicle editorial writer Caille Millner uses throughout her sharp-minded, elegantly written memoir-one with deep roots in the Bay area, though its author is not yet 30 years old. -- San Francisco Chronicle, February 18, 2007
This memoir follows a young woman's erratic maturation from working-class San Jose, where she was an African-American growing up in a predominantly Hispanic community, to Harvard and beyond-often to the back of beyond. Caille Millner also takes stabs at some socio-economic analysis-of class tribalism, the tech boom, urban real estate patterns, and other phenomena that might seem odd in the life story of a 27-year-old. But while these forays dilute the more urgent tale of her search for a moral compass, they are inextricable, ultimately, from her self-image as a smart, scraping, awkward young woman yearning for meaning and stability. -- New York Times, February 25, 2007
Gentrification-with its tricky constellation of class, race or ethnicity, and place-is a word that usually describes things like inner-city luxury condo developments, and not so often a person's growth, identity or life. Yet it's the apt, clever image Chronicle editorial writer Caille Millner uses throughout her sharp-minded, elegantly written memoir-one with deep roots in the Bay area, though its author is not yet 30 years old. -- San Francisco Chronicle, February 18, 2007
This memoir follows a young woman's erratic maturation from working-class San Jose, where she was an African-American growing up in a predominantly Hispanic community, to Harvard and beyond-often to the back of beyond. Caille Millner also takes stabs at some socio-economic analysis-of class tribalism, the tech boom, urban real estate patterns, and other phenomena that might seem odd in the life story of a 27-year-old. But while these forays dilute the more urgent tale of her search for a moral compass, they are inextricable, ultimately, from her self-image as a smart, scraping, awkward young woman yearning for meaning and stability. -- New York Times, February 25, 2007
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- PublisherPenguin Press HC, The
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1594201099
- ISBN 13 9781594201097
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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