| Wild Card Quilt: The Ecology of Home Contributor(s): Ray, Janisse (Author) |
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ISBN: 1571312781 ISBN-13: 9781571312785 Publisher: Milkweed Editions OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2004 Annotation: A follow-up to the American Book Award-winning "Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Wild Card Quilt" finds a journey to a childhood home becoming a powerful meditation on bridging the cultural divide. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2004012718 |
| Series: World as Home |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.54" W x 8.5" (0.93 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Geographic Orientation - Georgia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Seventeen years after she'd left home for good, Janisse Ray pointed her truck away from Montana and back to the small southern town where she was born. Wild Card Quilt is the story, by turns hilarious, heartbreaking, and ambitious, of the adventures of returning home. For Ray, it is a story of linking the ecology of people with the ecology of place -- of recovering lost traditions as she works to restore the fractured ecosystem of her native South. Her story is filled with syrup boils, quilt making, alligator trapping, and the wonderful characters of a place where generations still succeed each other on the land. But her town is also in need of repair, physical and otherwise. Ray works to save her local school, sets up a writing group at the local hardware store, and struggles with whether she can be an adult in a childhood place. |