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Threthewey's Dreams

Trethewey is troubled and intrigued by these experiences throughout her life, which often involve conversations and situations with her mother - some comforting, and some distressing and terrifying.

Stone Mountain

This monument to the Confederacy is visible from Trethewey's former home with her mother on Memorial Drive in Georgia.

Dieffenbachia

This plant is one of the few things Trethewey kept after her mother's death, and it must be handled with care because it secretes a toxic substance.

Cassandra

Trethewey's father used this figure from Greek mythology to represent Trethewey in his short stories; this figure was a prophet who was tragically cursed to not be believed.

New Orleans

This place was the city of Trethewey's mother's birth and the place she and her mother would visit while her father attended college courses there.

Zebra

Trethewey hears this derogatory term for the first time as a child...

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