The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature

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From the fertile soils of love, land, identity, circle of relatives, and race emerges The Home Place, a large-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina―a place “easy to pass by at the way in other places”―has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these atypical people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the wildlife around him. As his passion takes flight, alternatively, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity.” By turns offended, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a remarkable meditation on nature and belonging, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South―and in The united states nowadays.

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