South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in My Native Land - 9781250867780

In considering the pleasures and absurdities of her native culture, Julia Reed quotes another Southern writer, Willie Morris, who said, ôItÆs the juxtapositions that get you down here.ö 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 lifeùtaking 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 regionÆs music and food, its pesky critters and prodigious drinking habits, its inhabitantsÆ penchant for making their own funùand, crucially, their gift for laughing at themselves. With her distinctive voice and knowing eye, Julia also provides her take on the SouthÆs more embarrassing characteristics from the politics of lust and the persistence of dry counties to the ôseemingly bottomless propensity for committing a whole lot of craziness in the name of the Lord.ö No matter what, she writes, ôMy fellow Southerners have brought me the greatest joyùon the page, over the airwaves, around the dinner table, at the bar or, hell, in the checkout line.ö South Toward Home, with a foreword by Jon Meacham, is Julia ReedÆs valentine to the place she knows and loves best.

• | Author: Julia Reed
• | Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• | Publication Date: Jul 31, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Humor
• | ISBN-10: 1250867789
• | ISBN-13: 9781250867780