A childhood, the biography of a place
"Crews is, obviously, a unique southern raconteur. . . . It's easy to despise poor folks.A Childhood makes it more difficult. It raises almost to a level of heroism these people who seem of a different century.A Childhoodis not about a forgotten America, it is about a part of America that has rarely, except in books like this, been properly discovered."--New York Times Book Review