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The home place : memoirs of a colored man's love affair with nature

Title
The home place : memoirs of a colored man's love affair with nature / J. Drew Lanham.
ISBN
9781571313157 (hardcover : alk. paper)
157131315X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Edition
First edition.
Publication
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2016.
Physical Description
216 pages ; 22 cm
Notes
Photographs used as end papers.
Summary
"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”-to find joy and freedom in the same land his ancestors were tied to by forced labor, and then to be a black man in a profoundly white field. This book 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."--Dust jacket.
Other formats
Online version: Lanham, J. Drew (Joseph Drew), author. Home place First edition. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2016
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 21, 2017
Contents
Me : an introduction
FLOCK
The home place
Mamatha takes flight
A good name
A field guide to the four
First-Sunday God
FLEDGLING
Little brown Icarus
Whose eye is on the sparrow
Cows
Life's spring
FLIGHT
The bluebird of enlightenment
Hoops
Birding while black
Jawbone
New religion
Thinking
Digging
Family reunion
Patchwork legacy.
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