Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South

Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South - Paperback

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Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South - Paperback

Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South - Paperback

by Margaret Renkl
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Book Overview

Winner of the Southern Book Prize

Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayFor the past four years, Margaret Renkl's columns have offered readers of The New York Times a weekly dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her home in Nashville. Now more than sixty of those pieces have been brought together in this sparkling new collection.
"People have often asked me how it feels to be the 'voice of the South, '" writes Renkl in her introduction. "But I'm not the voice of the South, and no one else is, either." There are many Souths--red and blue, rural and urban, mountain and coast, Black and white and brown--and no one writer could possibly represent all of them. In Graceland, At Last, Renkl writes instead from her own experience about the complexities of her homeland, demonstrating along the way how much more there is to this tangled region than many people understand.In a patchwork quilt of personal and reported essays, Renkl also highlights some other voices of the South, people who are fighting for a better future for the region. A group of teenagers who organized a youth march for Black Lives Matter. An urban shepherd whose sheep remove invasive vegetation. Church parishioners sheltering the homeless. Throughout, readers will find the generosity of spirit and deep attention to the world, human and nonhuman, that keep readers returning to her columns each Monday morning.From a writer who "makes one of all the world's beings" (NPR), Graceland, At Last is a book full of gifts for Southerners and non-Southerners alike.
ISBN9781571311856
Author Margaret Renkl
PublisherMilkweed Editions
GenreHobbies & interests, Literature, and Travel
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2023
LanguageENG- English
Pages304
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South

Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South - Paperback

Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South - Paperback

By Margaret Renkl

About Margaret Renkl

Margaret Renkl is the author of Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss and Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where her essays appear weekly. The founding editor of Chapter 16, a daily literary publication of Humanities Tennessee, and a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Carolina, she lives in Nashville.

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