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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
The Home Place Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
Author: J. Drew Lanham
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 H...  more », 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.
ISBN-13: 9781571313157
ISBN-10: 157131315X
Publication Date: 9/13/2016
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 6
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