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

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

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 Carolinaâ€•a place â€œeasy to pass by on the way somewhere elseâ€â€•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 â€œthe rare bird, the oddity.â€

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 Southâ€•and in America today.
Country USA
Brand Milkweed Editions
Manufacturer Milkweed Editions
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781571313508
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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