Ecology of a Cracker Childhood: The World as Home Audiobook (Free)

Janisse Ray was raised within a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, concealed from Florida-bound vacationers from the hedge at the advantage of the street and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. Ecology of a Cracker Child years tells how a youth spent in rural isolation and steeped in religious fundamentalism grew right into a interest to save lots of the nearly vanished longleaf pine ecosystem that once protected the South. In language simultaneously colloquial, elegiac, and interesting, Ray redeems two Souths. “Suffused using the same history-haunted sense of loss that imprints therefore a lot of the South and its own literature.”