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My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir

Mark Whitaker

In a dramatic, moving work, Mark Whitaker, award-winning journalist, sets out to trace the story of what happened to his parents, a fascinating but star-crossed interracial couple, and arrives at a new understanding of the family dramas that shaped their lives—and his own. In a dramatic, moving work of historical reporting and personal discovery, Mark Whitaker, award-winning journalist, sets out to trace the story of what happened to his parents, a fascinating but star-crossed interracial couple, and arrives at a new understanding of the family dramas that shaped their lives—and his own.

Memoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Autobiography · high confidenceMemoir & Autobiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Memoir & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> BiographyMemoir & Personal HistoryFamily BiographyTravel, Exploration & Place

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyMajor2011FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Mark Whitaker90%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Mark Whitaker traces what happened to his parents and reaches a new understanding of the family dramas that shaped their lives and his own.

    Model confidence 74%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 78%.