Born southern and restless
By: Kat Meads.
Series: Emerging writers in creative nonfiction
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Meads, Kat, 1951- -- Family; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships; Family -- Southern States; Southern States -- Social life and customs
Description: Born Southern and Restless is an engaging personal narrative about growing up in the South and leaving that region to explore a "larger" world. These essays give us a writer who is able to take us along as she lives in various places and supports herself through various odd jobs. She gives us a wealth of interesting characters - her father, grandmother, neighbors and relatives, people she meets during her wandering.
Table of contents: title: The itch of wanderlust; title: Dora's version; title: Neighbors vs. kin; title: Standing between God and me; title: Water terrors; title: Falling from grace; title: Sports : family style; title: Ras's place; title: Joe, Leo and Lillian; title: What Miss Elizabeth told me about life; title: Native son; title: Duties during the summer of 1980; title: When Elvis died; title: Eye of the beheld; title: Exchanging forever; title: The coupling and the un; title: Someone else's city; title: Live, onstage; title: Instruction; title: Almost alone in Albuquerque; title: Death Valley allure; title: Testing; title: The confessions of Willie Mae Hall; title: An Emily/Sylvia pilgrimage; title: Night life; title: The piracy of acquaintance; title: Collecting postcards; title: The farm.