Charleston County Public Library

The secret life of a black Aspie, a memoir, Anand Prahlad

eng

autobiography

no index present

non fiction

The secret life of a black Aspie

957077647

Anand Prahlad

a memoir

"Anand Prahlad was born on a former plantation in Virginia in 1954. This memoir, vividly internal, powerfully lyrical, and brilliantly impressionistic, is his story. For the first four years of his life, Prahlad didn't speak. But his silence didn't stop him from communicating--or communing--with the strange, numinous world he found around him. Ordinary household objects came to life; the spirits of long-dead slave children were his best friends. In his magical interior world, sensory experiences blurred, time disappeared, and memory was fluid. Ever so slowly, he emerged, learning to talk and evolving into an artist and educator. His journey takes readers across the United States during one of its most turbulent moments, and Prahlad experienced it all, from the heights of the Civil Rights Movement to West Coast hippie enclaves to a college town that continues to struggle with racism and its border state legacy."--Publisher's website

Introduction: remembering -- Born with the spirits -- Growing up with the spirits -- The pillows are crying -- The big yellow bus -- Going to the moon -- Cool -- The white castle -- The big yellow house -- The purple time -- I think I do -- Gray concrete -- All the green and blue -- Professor in the silver town -- Making lunch