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Memoir

Taking Flight

By Michaela DePrince, Elaine DePrince

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Michaela DePrince recounts losing family in wartime Sierra Leone, being adopted, and beginning serious ballet training in the United States. She describes the work of learning to dance and the assumptions about race and appearance she encountered along the way. The memoir follows the people and choices that helped turn a childhood ambition into a profession.

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Edition and subjects

ISBN-13
9780385755115
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition date
2014
First published
2014
Art, Culture & Creative Expression Biographies & Untold Stories Young Readers & Families Adoption Ballet Contemporary Teens and adults

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