Picked up at a library book sale.

I've had this book for quite some time, so I needed to make another attempt to read it. It is wonderfully written, some great storytelling. There were chapters where he focused on himself and his work, and I just kept thinking, "Get back to telling me about your momma." Which he did.

from the back cover:
This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly 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 story of Bragg's father, a hard-drinking man with a murderous temper and the habit of running out on the people who needed him most. But at the center of this soaring memoir is Bragg's mother, who went eighteen years without a new dress so that her sons could have school clothes and picked other people's cotton so that her children wouldn't have to live on welfare alone. Evoking these lives - and the country that shaped and nourished them - with artistry, honesty, and compassion, Rick Bragg brings home the love and suffering that lie at the heart of every family.

RELEASE NOTES:

Releasing to Jumieges' bio/memoir bookbox

Sounds good! Taking from bookbox.

In an effort to keep this book moving, I've offered this up for free on my local varagesale site. A new reader is picking it up today. Happy travels, little book!