![]() It is also the story of Bragg's father, a hard-drinking man with a murderous temper and the habit of running out on the people who needed him most.īut at the center of this soaring memoir is Bragg's mother, who went eighteen years without a new dress so that her sons could have school clothes and picked other people's cotton so that her children wouldn't have to live on welfare alone.Įvoking these lives-and the country that shaped and nourished them-with artistry, honesty, and compassion, Rick Bragg brings home the love and suffering that lie at the heart of every family. This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times. he will make you cry" ( Atlanta Journal-Constitution). ![]() Bragg tells about the South with such power and bone-naked. ![]() Bragg tells about the South with such power and bone-naked love. NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the Pulitzer Prizewinner and bestselling author, a grand memoir.
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