Book cover of Black Ice

Black Ice

1991262 pagesVintage Books

Lorene Cary's debut memoir recounts her years as the only Black student at St. Paul's School, a prestigious New England boarding school, and the racial isolation that drove her toward marijuana use in an attempt to cope with loneliness and prejudice.

Avg. reading time: 4h 58m
Prose complexity: 4/10

Reflective Melancholic

Contemporary Literature Biography & Memoir Memoir

Black IceUnknown, 1991

262 pages

Vintage BooksLanguage: EnglishISBN: 9780679737452

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