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A New York Times Remarkable Ebook of the Year
This haunting, harrowing, gloriously shifting recollection of a existence on the American margin is the tale of Rick Bragg, who grew up filth-terrible in northeastern Alabama, reputedly destined for both the cotton turbines or the detention center, and as a substitute become a Pulitzer Prize-profitable reporter for The New York Occasions. It’s the tale of Bragg’s father, a troublesome-ingesting guy with a murderous mood and the addiction of operating out on the individuals who wanted him so much.
But on the middle of this hovering memoir is Bragg’s mom, who went eighteen years with out a new get dressed in order that her sons will have college garments and picked other folks’s cotton in order that her kids should not have to survive welfare on my own. Evoking those lives–and the rustic that formed and nourished them–with artistry, honesty, and compassion, Rick Bragg brings house the affection and struggling that lie on the middle of each circle of relatives. The result’s unforgettable.
