Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
eBook - ePub

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

15th Anniversary Edition

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

15th Anniversary Edition

About this book

From the memories of a childhood marked by extreme poverty, mental illness, and restrictive fundamentalist Christian rules, Janisse Ray crafted a "heartfelt and refreshing"( New York Times )memoir that has inspired thousands to embrace their beginnings, no matter how humble, and to fight for the places they love. This new edition updates and contextualizes the story for a new generation and a wider audience desperately searching for stories of empowerment and hope.

Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound travelers by hulks of old cars. In language at once colloquial, elegiac, and informative, Ray redeems her home and her people, while also cataloging the source of her childhood hope: the Edenic longleaf pine forests, where orchids grow amid wiregrass at the feet of widely spaced, lofty trees. Today, the forests exist in fragments, cherished and threatened, and the South of her youth is gradually being overtaken by golf courses and suburban development.

A contemporary classic, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood is a clarion call to protect the cultures and ecologies of every childhood.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Child of Pine
  8. Below the Fall Line
  9. Shame
  10. Built by Fire
  11. Iron Man
  12. Forest Beloved
  13. Junkyard
  14. Crackers
  15. Native Genius
  16. Timber
  17. Heaven on Earth
  18. Clearcut
  19. How the Heart Opens
  20. Longleaf Clan
  21. Clyo
  22. Hallowed Ground
  23. Poverty
  24. The Keystone
  25. Beulahland
  26. Indigo Snake
  27. Mama
  28. Bachman’s Sparrow
  29. Light
  30. Flatwoods Salamander
  31. Altamaha River
  32. Pine Savanna
  33. Driving and Singing
  34. The Kindest Cut
  35. Leaving
  36. Second Coming
  37. Afterword: Promised Land
  38. There Is a Miracle for You If You Keep Holding On
  39. Appendixes
  40. About the Author
  41. Acknowledgments