num_pages: 217
description: In me there is the red of miry clay the brown of spring floods the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; 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 and professor of ecology J. Drew Lanham. Dating back to slavery Edgefield County South Carolinaa place easy to pass by on the way somewhere elsehas 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. 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 Southand in America today.
language: English
title: The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
publisher: Milkweed Editions