# A Parallel Life

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- Book: [A Parallel Life](https://www.bookquiver.com/bonnie-greer/a-parallel-life) ([A Parallel Life.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/bonnie-greer/a-parallel-life.md))
- Authors: [Bonnie Greer](https://www.bookquiver.com/bonnie-greer)
- Publisher: arcadia_parent_imprint
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-19-0980-770-9
- Published: 2014-05-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Award-winning playwright, author and critic Bonnie Greer's touching, funny and thought-provoking memoir is a voyage into the making of a woman who set out to unmake what she'd been born and brought up to be: 'a proper girl' - a precious definition in a segregate and racist America where black life was deemed only three-fifths of white life ... and the life of a black woman even less.