Margaret Renkl

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Graceland, At Last (eBook, ePUB)

Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South

Beschreibung

"In this luminous collection" a New York Times columnist "delivers smart, beautifully crafted personal and political observations" on the American south ( Minneapolis Star Tribune). Margaret Renkl's New York Times columns offer readers a weekly dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her home in Nashville. Now more than sixty of those pieces have been brought together in this sparkling collection. "People have often asked me how it feels to be the 'voice of the South,'" writes Renkl in her introduction. "But I'm not the voice of the South, and no one else is, either." There are many Souths-red and blue, rural and urban, mountain and coast, Black and white and brown-and no one writer could possibly represent all of them. In Graceland, At Last, Renkl writes instead from her own experience about the complexities of her homeland. In a patchwork quilt of essays, Renkl also highlights other voices of the South. Teenagers who organized a youth march for Black Lives Matter. An urban shepherd whose sheep remove invasive vegetation. Church parishioners sheltering the homeless. Throughout, readers will find a generosity of spirit and deep attention to the world, human and nonhuman. From a writer who "makes one of all the world's beings" (NPR), Graceland, At Last is a book for Southerners and non-Southerners alike. "E.B. White suggested that newspapers cover nature as eagerly as commerce.... Renkl... seems like a belated answer to White... [crafting] graceful sentences that White would surely have enjoyed." - Wall Street Journal "Margaret Renkl's perspective feels like a guiding light... No matter where you're from, column after column, Renkl will make you feel right at home." ? Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Autor

Margaret Renklis the author of Graceland, At Lastand Late Migrations, which was a Read with Jenna/ TODAYShow book club selection. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where her essays appear weekly. Her work has also appeared in Guernica, Literary Hub, Proximity, and River Teeth, among others. She was the founding editor of Chapter 16, the daily literary publication of Humanities Tennessee, and is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Carolina. She lives in Nashville.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781571317575
• Artikelnr.: 62517435

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Praise for Graceland, At Last

"[Graceland, At Last] is Renkl at her most tender and most fierce . . . Renkl's gift, just as it was in her first book Late Migrations, is to make fascinating for others what is closest to her heart . . . What rises in me after reading her essays is [John] Lewis' famous urging to get in good trouble to make the world fairer and better. Many people in the South are doing just that-and through her beautiful writing, Renkl is among them." -NPR

"In this luminous collection, Margaret Renkl delivers smart, beautifully crafted personal and political observations . . . I keep this book nearby to revisit the humanity and hope in its pages." -Minneapolis Star

Tribune

"Amazing and inspiring. [Graceland, At Last] will help you figure out concrete things you can do to save the planet." -Ann Patchett

"Reading the short essays in this book has strengthened my understanding and love for the South, its people, its land, and its complexities. I especially have enjoyed reading Renkl's thoughtful reflections on flora and fauna, and I find myself looking to my changing backyard this fall with a new appreciation." -Garden & Gun

"[Renkl] doesn't shy from hard topics but explores them with the careful hand of someone whose heart yearns for healing, growth, and understanding for the region she loves. A must read for those who live and love the South!" -Country Living

"Readers can easily home in on one of the book's wide-ranging six sections, sample an essay or two from each, or barrel through from start to finish, as whim dictates. Renkl's voice is calm, steady and sometimes surprising . . . She celebrates a host of new voices in southern writing and sees in their world the light of justice and hope for the South." -Booklist

"From her home in Nashville-'a blue dot in the red sea of Tennessee'-[Renkl] writes perceptively of the region where she was born and raised (in Alabama), educated (in South Carolina), and settled . . . Renkl vividly evokes the lush natural beauty of the rivers, old-growth forests, 'red-dirt pineywoods,' marshes, and coastal plains that she deeply loves . . . A wide-ranging look at the realities of the South." -Kirkus Reviews

"If you've happened upon the poignant and off-road opinion pieces Renkl writes as a contributor to The New York Times, you already know that the natural world is something she closely observes and uses as a springboard to contemplate other, less tangible subjects. . . . Her life story and her life's passion intertwine, like a fence post and a trumpet vine."-Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air