Publication

2016 - Milkweed Editions, Minnesota

Language

English

Word Count

54,000 words, Guess

Page Count

216 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC590.92
  • DDCB
  • LCCQL31.L373 A3 2016
and 1 more
  • LCCQL31.L373A3 2016

Description

"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."--Jacket.

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People

J. Drew Lanham

Other Editions

  • The home place: memoirs of a colored man's love affair with natureMilkweed Editions2016-01-01

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