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New York Times Pulitzer Prize winning writer Rick Bragg's latest book about his family. This one chronicles the life of his grandfather Charlie. Drawing on the memories of family, he reconstructs the life of an unlettered roofer who kept food on his family's table through the worst of the Depression. A moonshiner who drank exactly one pint for every gallon he sold and an unregenerate brawler who could sit for hours with a baby in the crook of his arm. Bragg's story conjures up the backwoods of Georgia and Alabama in the years when the roads were still dirt and real men never cussed in front of ladies. A family chronicle so vivid, you can smell the cornbread and the whiskey.
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