The home place : memoirs of a colored man's love affair with nature / J. Drew Lanham.
2016
Non-Fiction
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Title
The home place : memoirs of a colored man's love affair with nature / J. Drew Lanham.
Edition
First edition.
Imprint
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2016.
Description
216 pages ; 22 cm
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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." 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."--Jacket.
Note
Photographs used as end papers.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Lanham, J. Drew (Joseph Drew). Home place. First edition. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2016
Call Number
Non-Fiction
Language
English
ISBN
9781571313157 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
157131315X (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
157131315X (hardcover ; alkaline paper)