TY - BOOK N2 - A volume of essays by the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize-winning author of The Balloonists considers her mixed heritage as the daughter of a Jamaican father and white mother who embraces a West African faith, the legacy of the Reconstruction as taught in public schools, and the nation's misconceptions about pioneer nobility. AB - A volume of essays by the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize-winning author of The Balloonists considers her mixed heritage as the daughter of a Jamaican father and white mother who embraces a West African faith, the legacy of the Reconstruction as taught in public schools, and the nation's misconceptions about pioneer nobility. T1 - Notes from no man's land :American essays / DA - c2009. CY - Saint Paul, Minn. : AU - Biss, Eula. CN - PS3602.I77 CN - PS3602.I77 PB - Graywolf Press, PP - Saint Paul, Minn. : PY - c2009. ID - 694547 SN - 9781555975180 SN - 1555975186 TI - Notes from no man's land :American essays / ER -