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Graceland, at last notes on hope and heartache from the American South

For the last four years Renkl's writing has offered readers of the New York Times a weekly dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her home in Nashville. This collection of her essays provide a patchwork quilt of the complexities of her homeland, demonstrating along the way h...

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Main Author: Renkl, Margaret (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Southern States.
Essays.
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Table of Contents:
  • FLORA & FAUNA. Hawk. Lizard. Mole. Human
  • The flower that came back from the dead
  • The eagles of Reelfoot Lake
  • The real aliens in our backyard
  • Make America graze again
  • The misunderstood, maligned rattlesnake
  • Making way for monarchs
  • The call of the American Lotus
  • POLITICS & RELIGION. A monument the Old South would like to ignore
  • The hits keep coming for the Red-State Poor
  • Lies, damn lies, and Georgia
  • We're all addicts here
  • There is a middle ground on guns
  • An American tragedy
  • The passion of Southern Christians
  • Christians need a new right-to-life movement
  • Shame and salvation in the American South
  • Texas isn't the problem
  • Going to church with Jimmy Carter
  • SOCIAL JUSTICE. What is America to me?
  • ICE came to take their neighbor. They said no
  • Christmas isn't coming to death row
  • An act of mercy in Tennessee
  • An open letter to White Christians
  • Looking our racist history in the eye
  • Middle passage to mass incarceration
  • In Memphis, journalism can still bring justice
  • An open letter to John Lewis
  • Reading the New South
  • These kids are done waiting for change
  • ENVIRONMENT. America's killer lawns
  • Dangerous waters
  • More trees, happier people
  • I have a cure for the dog days of summer
  • The case against doing nothing
  • Planting seeds in snow
  • The fox in the stroller
  • Death of a cat
  • A 150,000-bird orchestra in the sky
  • FAMILY & COMMUNITY. Waking up to history
  • Why I wear five wedding rings
  • Demolition blues
  • The gift of shared grief
  • Remembrance of recipes past
  • All the empty seats at the table
  • What it means to be #NashvilleStrong
  • The night the lights went out
  • The story of the surly Santa and the Christmas miracle
  • True love in the age of coronavirus
  • ARTS & CULTURE. Keep America's roadside weird
  • Country music as melting pot
  • John Prine: American oracle
  • So long to Music City's favorite soap opera
  • "Beauty herself is black"
  • The day the music died
  • After war, three chords and the truth
  • Proud graduate of State U
  • And play like a girl she did
  • What is a Southern writer, anyway?
  • Graceland, at last.

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