Camille Dungy’s Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History has been named a finalist in one of six categories for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award.
Monthly Archives: January 2018
25 Essential Authors: Outside Magazine
Outside Magazine includes Camille Dungy in the article “Women Writing About the Wild: 25 Essential Authors.” “The following list is in no way definitive, but if you want a primer on some of the best nature writing you probably haven’t read yet, you’d do well to start with these 25 women.”
“20 Books That Deserved More Attention in 2017”
Edwidge Danticat says this about Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Part memoir, part travelogue, part parental guide, this book is a stunningly beautiful love letter from a mother to her daughter to help her daughter embrace the world she lives in, to introduce her to her ancestors, and prepare her for the future.