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Jo McDougall brings a poet's sensibility to memoir. Recounting five generations of Delta rice farmers, through family archives and dental histories, she traces the way the clan made their way in to the textile of America, you start with her Belgian-immigrant grandfather, a pioneer rice farmer on the Arkansas Delta at the turn of the 20th century. As John Grisham has for a 1950s Arkansas natural cotton farm, McDougall illuminates an Arkansas rice farm in the 1930s and 1940s. The Garot family's acreage near DeWitt and the city itself supply the level for McDougall's wry, persuasive, and layered accounts of the day-to-day of rice growing on the farm that her father inherited. For the reason that environment she discovers a abundant "universe of words" in the fantastic Depression, comes old during World Conflict II, and confirms her way alongside "that whole quirky, compelling solid of heroes" that comprised her kin. In this particular conflicted, ironic, southern-but-universal accounts of betrayal, heartbreak, loss, and delight, "the vagaries and the elegance" of the land get together with the power of money as family bonds are both forged and dissolved. Deeply experienced, unsentimental, and often humorous, Daddy's Money presents McDougall's life and the lives of her relatives in the manner that all our lives are eventually framed - as tales. "When everything else is lost," the author maintains, "the tales remain." The booklet is published with the College or university of Arkansas Press.
