Description
From the fertile ground of love, land, identity, family, and race, this big-hearted memoir traces how one man’s lifelong fascination with the natural world becomes a way to reckon with inheritance and belonging. Spanning the 1970s, it follows Drew Lanham as he falls in love with the birds, forests, and rhythms of the South Carolina Piedmont—while confronting the complicated legacy of Black landownership, loss, and the contradictions of “home.” Equal parts natural history and personal narrative, the book moves between wonder and grief, using close observation of nature to illuminate the emotional geography of a family and a nation. With Lanham’s lyrical, accessible style—part field notes, part elegy—readers are invited to ask who a place is for, what it costs to claim it, and how love can both reveal and remake history.
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paperback
Milkweed Editions
Published Jan 1, 2016
216 pages
ISBN: 9781571313157
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First Published
2016
Language
eng
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