A Pulitzer-winning reporter recalls growing up dirt-poor in Alabama, shaped by his mother's sacrifices and his father's violence and absence.
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A Pulitzer-winning reporter recalls growing up dirt-poor in Alabama, shaped by his mother's sacrifices and his father's violence and absence.
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This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a hard-drinking man with a murderous temper and the habit of running out on the people who needed him most.
But at the center of this soaring memoir is ...
What's Inside
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Sexual content
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Violence & gore
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Father's violent temper and beatings; reporting on tragedy and violence
Profanity
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Strong language reflecting hardscrabble Southern life and speech
Substance use
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Father's alcoholism is a central destructive force in the family
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Southern evangelical culture; damnation warnings and being Saved
Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Southern race relations, class, and family support for George Wallace
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Father's domestic abuse and abandonment; childhood poverty and hardship
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