February 9 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm EST
Join your fellow bibliophiles for our monthly Where the Wild Books Are book club meeting! Meetings are held via Zoom. Event hours are listed as 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m., but feel free to drop in as you’re able!
Foreword Reviews Best Book of 2016 and Nautilus Silver Award WinnerPraise for The Home Place'A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape, and a deep meditation on nature, selfhood, It is thoughtful, sincere, wise, and beautiful. From the fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J.
February’s book is The Home Place by J. Drew Lanham.
“In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. I am, in the deepest sense, colored.” From these fertile soils—of love, land, identity, family, and race—emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham.
Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place “easy to pass by on the way to somewhere else”—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity”—to find joy and freedom in the same land his ancestors were tied to by forced labor, and then to be a black man in a profoundly white field.
By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place God of war. 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 America today. Guadacanal.
The Home Place J Drew Lanham
February 9 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm EST
Join your fellow bibliophiles for our monthly Where the Wild Books Are book club meeting! Meetings are held via Zoom. Event hours are listed as 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m., but feel free to drop in as you’re able!
The Home Place By Drew Lanham
February’s book is The Home Place by J. Drew Lanham. Cars.
“In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. I am, in the deepest sense, colored.” From these fertile soils—of love, land, identity, family, and race—emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham.
Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place “easy to pass by on the way to somewhere else”—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity”—to find joy and freedom in the same land his ancestors were tied to by forced labor, and then to be a black man in a profoundly white field.
By turns angry, 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 America today.