9781250166340-1250166349-South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in My Native Land

South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in My Native Land

ISBN-13: 9781250166340
ISBN-10: 1250166349
Author: Julia Reed
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover 256 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781250166340
ISBN-10: 1250166349
Author: Julia Reed
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover 256 pages

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South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in My Native Land (ISBN-13: 9781250166340 and ISBN-10: 1250166349), written by authors Julia Reed, was published by St. Martin's Press in 2018. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other United States (Historical) books. You can easily purchase or rent South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in My Native Land (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.53.

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In considering the pleasures and absurdities of her native culture, Julia Reed quotes another Southern writer, Willie Morris, who said, “It’s the juxtapositions that get you down here.” These juxtapositions are, for Julia, the soul of the South, and in her warmhearted and funny new book, South Toward Home, she chronicles her adventures through the highs and the lows of Southern life―taking us everywhere from dive bars and the Delta Hot Tamale Festival to an impromptu shindig on a Mississippi River sandbar and a coveted seat on a Mardi Gras float. She writes about the region’s music and food, its pesky critters and prodigious drinking habits, its inhabitants’ penchant for making their own fun―and, crucially, their gift for laughing at themselves.

With her distinctive voice and knowing eye, Julia also provides her take on the South’s more embarrassing characteristics from the politics of lust and the persistence of dry counties to the “seemingly bottomless propensity for committing a whole lot of craziness in the name of the Lord.” No matter what, she writes, “My fellow Southerners have brought me the greatest joy―on the page, over the airwaves, around the dinner table, at the bar or, hell, in the checkout line.” South Toward Home, with a foreword by Jon Meacham, is Julia Reed’s valentine to the place she knows and loves best.

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