9781476709642-1476709645-Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta

Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta

ISBN-13: 9781476709642
ISBN-10: 1476709645
Edition: First Edition
Author: Richard Grant
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781476709642
ISBN-10: 1476709645
Edition: First Edition
Author: Richard Grant
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback 320 pages

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Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta (ISBN-13: 9781476709642 and ISBN-10: 1476709645), written by authors Richard Grant, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2015. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Black & African American (Cultural & Regional, Human Geography, Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Black & African American books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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In Dispatches from Pluto, adventure writer Richard Grant takes on “the most American place on Earth”—the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta.

Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New York City when they decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. Dispatches from Pluto—winner of the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize—is their journey of discovery into this strange and wonderful American place. Imagine A Year In Provence with alligators and assassins, or Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil with hunting scenes and swamp-to-table dining.

On a remote, isolated strip of land, three miles beyond the tiny community of Pluto, Richard and his girlfriend, Mariah, embark on a new life. They learn to hunt, grow their own food, and fend off alligators, snakes, and varmints galore. They befriend an array of unforgettable local characters—blues legend T-Model Ford, cookbook maven Martha Foose, catfish farmers, eccentric millionaires, and the actor Morgan Freeman. Grant brings an adept, empathetic eye to the fascinating people he meets, capturing the rich, extraordinary culture of the Delta, while tracking its utterly bizarre and criminal extremes. Reporting from all angles as only an outsider can, Grant also delves deeply into the Delta’s lingering racial tensions. He finds that de facto segregation continues. Yet even as he observes major structural problems, he encounters many close, loving, and interdependent relationships between black and white families—and good reasons for hope.

Dispatches from Pluto is a book as unique as the Delta itself. It’s lively, entertaining, and funny, containing a travel writer’s flair for in-depth reporting alongside insightful reflections on poverty, community, and race. It’s also a love story, as the nomadic Grant learns to settle down. He falls not just for his girlfriend but for the beguiling place they now call home. Mississippi, Grant concludes, is the best-kept secret in America.
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