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My southern journey, true stories from the heart of the South, by Rick Bragg

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My southern journey, true stories from the heart of the South, by Rick Bragg

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eng

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My southern journey

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907934546

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by Rick Bragg

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true stories from the heart of the South

Summary

For the first time, prizewinning author Rick Bragg's most poignant portraits of the uniquely American experience of Southern life are combined into one volume. Along with many new essays, My Southern Journey delves into regional obsessions from college football and fishing to mayonnaise, spoon bread, and the beauty of a fish on the hook. With his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, Bragg explores enduring Southern verities and the regions' varied geographies, including his native Alabama, Cajun country, and the Gulf Coast

Table Of Contents

Introduction: South toward home -- Home. The roses of Fairhope ; Mama always said...choose your words carefully ; My brother's garden ; Pretty girl ; Crazy cat lady ; The porch ; Take your medicine, boy ; Time for the year's best nap ; My time machine ; All-night gospel ; Saving face ; Endless summer ; Happy as a pig ; Red dirt -- Table. For a vegetable, I'll have white gravy ; Back to the bayou ; Traveling food ; Fully dressed ; Your first oyster ; Bad slaw ; Never-ending Grace ; The plane truth ; Magic on the plate ; Seasoned in the South ; Summer snow ; The impossible turkey ; Honor thy matriarch ; Requiem for a fish sandwich -- Place. What stands in a storm ; No place like home ; Trade day ; Lost in the dark ; The eternal gulf ; Donkey business ; Armadillo ; Dixie snow ; Merry and bright ; Shopping ; My kind of town ; The lost gulf ; The Yankee mystique ; Cotton ; Stillness -- Craft. Why I write about home ; The fine art of piddling ; The color of words ; The blank notebook ; Fish story ; The quill and the mule ; Words on paper ; Wood, paint, nails, and soul ; Grandpa was a carpenter ; Stuck for good -- Spirit. Down here ; For the love of the game ; All Saint's Day ; When fireworks go South ; O Christmas Tree ; Wheels of time ; The gift of loafering ; Holiday lies ; O Christmas Sock ; Cowboys are her weakness ; A cast of characters ; Nick of time ; 109 yards returned, two points denied, and one twist left in the road ; Long time coming ; Born too late

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