The Phenomenal Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey was perhaps one of the most influential and most talented minds that the world has ever known and encountered. She is a highly acclaimed writer, who is the daughter of a Canadian poet and professor, as well as, a social worker by the name of Gwendolyn Ann Turnbough. Her parents were big believers in the importance of having an education and reading. She was encouraged to be and do her very best in every endeavor, despite her living
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describing the lies. It’s about an African American girl that may tell little lies that don’t really mean much. She would lie about where she lived, and where she bought her clothes, but would also lie about being African American. Right below the poem is the history of Natasha Trethewey, and she was a girl that was just light enough to pass for white. It’s actually really sad the way she describes lying about her skin color. She writes, “I could even keep quiet, quiet as kept, like the time a white girl said
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