| Description |
291 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Hawk. Lizard. Mole. Human -- The flower that came back from the dead -- The eagles of Reelfoot Lake -- The real aliens in our backyard -- Make America graze again -- The misunderstood, maligned rattlesnake -- Making way for monarchs -- The call of the American lotus -- A monument the old south would like to ignore -- The hits keep coming for the red-state poor -- Lies, damn lies, and Georgia -- We're all addicts here -- There is a middle ground on guns -- An American tragedy -- The passion of Southern Christians -- Christians need a new right-to-life movement -- Shame and salvation in the American South -- Texas isn't the problem -- Going to church with Jimmy Carter -- What is America to me? -- ICE came to take their neighbor. they said no -- Christmas isn't coming to death row -- An act of mercy in Tennessee -- An open letter to white Christians -- Looking our racist history in the eye -- Middle passage to mass incarceration -- In Memphis, journalism can still bring justice -- An open letter to John Lewis -- Reading the new south -- These kids are done waiting for a change -- America's killer lawns -- Dangerous waters -- More trees, happier people -- I have a cure for the dog days of summer -- The case against doing nothing -- Planting seeds in snow -- The fox in the stroller -- Death of a cat -- A 150,000-bird orchestra in the sky -- Waking up to history -- Why I wear five wedding rings -- Demolition blues -- The gift of shared grief -- Remembrance of recipes past -- All the empty seats at the table -- What is means to be #NashvilleStrong -- The night the lights went out -- The story of the surly Santa and the Christmas miracle -- True love in the age of coronavirus -- Keep America's roadside weird -- Country music as melting pot -- John Prine: American oracle -- So long to Music city's favorite soap opera -- "Beauty Herself Is Back" -- The day the music died -- After war, three chords and the truth -- Proud graduate of state u. -- And play like a girl she did -- What is a southern writer, anyway? -- Graceland, at last. |
| Summary |
"There are many Souths—red and blue, rural and urban, mountain and coast, Black and white and brown—and no one writer could possibly represent all of them. In Graceland, At Last, Renkl writes instead from her own experience about the complexities of her homeland, demonstrating along the way how much more there is to this tangled region than many people understand. In a patchwork quilt of personal and reported essays, Renkl also highlights some other voices of the South, people who are fighting for a better future for the region. A group of teenagers who organized a youth march for Black Lives Matter. An urban shepherd whose sheep remove invasive vegetation. Church parishioners sheltering the homeless. Throughout, readers will find the generosity of spirit and deep attention to the world, human and nonhuman, that keep readers returning to her columns each Monday morning." --publisher's website |
| Subject |
Southern States.
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Essays.
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| Genre |
Essays.
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| Added Title |
Notes on hope and heartache from the American South |
| ISBN |
9781571311849 |
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157131184X |
| Standard No. |
17099219 |
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