The Home Place : Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

by J. Drew Lanham

2020-04-23 01:51:39

From the fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina - a place easy to pass by on the w... Read more
From the fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina - a place easy to pass by on the way somewhere else" - has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be "the rare bird, the oddity." By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a remarkable meditation on nature and belonging, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South - and in America today." Less

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File size8.4x5.4x0.7inches
Print pages240
PublisherMilkweed Editions
Publication date June 1, 2017
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781571313508

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