The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature - J. Drew Lanham

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Edgefield County, South Carolina, has been home to generations of Lanhams, dating back to slavery. Given their family name by slaveholders, the Lanhams created a personal legacy of grit and affection even in the midst of hard times. Here we meet a number of these determined people, including the young Drew, who falls in love with the natural world around him. This is at once a moving memoir and an exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South and in America today. Drew Lanham has been named the winner of the Henry David Thoreau Prize for literary excellence in nature writing in 2024.
Milkweed Editions, 2016. Paperback, 216 pp.

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