An Indie Next Selection for September 2021 from the author of the bestselling #ReadWithJenna/ TODAY Show book club pick Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss For the past four years, Margaret Renkl\'s columns have offered readers of The New York Times a weekly dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent Hope from her home in Nashville.
from a writer who makes one of all the world\'s beings (NPR), Graceland, At Last is a book full of gifts for Southerners and non-Southerners alike..
Throughout, readers will find the generosity of spirit and deep attention to the world, human and nonhuman, that keep readers returning to her columns each Monday morning.
Church parishioners sheltering the homeless.
An urban shepherd whose sheep remove invasive vegetation.
A group of teenagers who organized a youth march for Black Lives Matter.
In a patchwork quilt of personal and reported essays, Renkl also highlights some other voices of the South, people who are fighting for a better future for the region.
In Graceland, At Last , Renkl writes instead from her own experience about the complexities of her homeland, demonstrating along the way how much more there is to this tangled region than many people understand.
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.
But I\'m not the voice of the South, and no one else is, either.
People have often asked me how it feels to be the \'voice of the South, \' writes Renkl in her introduction.
Now more than sixty of those pieces have been brought together in this sparkling new collection.
An Indie Next Selection for September 2021 from the author of the bestselling #ReadWithJenna/ TODAY Show book club pick Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss For the past four years, Margaret Renkl\'s columns have offered readers of The New York Times a weekly dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent Hope from her home in Nashville
