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This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the storyline of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, relatively destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the history of Bragg's dad, a hard-drinking man with a murderous temper and the habit of running out on folks who needed him most. But at the center of the soaring memoir is Bragg's mother, who proceeded to go eighteen years with out a new dress so that her sons can have college clothes and picked other people's cotton so that her children wouldn't have to go on welfare alone. Evoking these lives - and the country that formed and nourished them - with artistry, integrity, and compassion, Rick Bragg brings hone the love and suffering that lie at the heart of every family. The effect is unforgettable.
