Category:
General Nonfiction
Regular worth:
$14.99
Deal worth:
$2.99
Deal begins:
December 18, 2022
Deal ends:
December 18, 2022
WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.” —Isabel Wilkerson
An important, shocking journey via the historical past, rituals, and landscapes of the American South—and a revelatory argument for why you could perceive the South so as to perceive America
We all assume we all know the South. Even those that have by no means lived there can rattle off a listing of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, soccer, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies, tendencies, and habits of the area are stranger and extra advanced than a lot of the nation tends to acknowledge. In South to America, Imani Perry reveals that the which means of American is inextricably linked with the South, and that our understanding of its historical past and tradition is the important thing to understanding the nation as a complete.
This is the story of a Black lady and native Alabaman returning to the area she has all the time referred to as dwelling and contemplating it with recent eyes. Her journey is filled with detours, deep dives, and shocking encounters with locations and folks. She renders Southerners from all walks of life with sensitivity and honesty, sharing her ideas a few troubling historical past and the ritual humiliations and joys that characterize a lot of Southern life.
Weaving collectively tales of immigrant communities, modern artists, exploitative opportunists, enslaved peoples, unsung heroes, her personal ancestors, and her lived experiences, Imani Perry crafts a tapestry not like some other. With unusual perception and breathtaking readability, South to America affords an assertion that if we wish to construct a extra humane future for the United States, we should heart our concern under the Mason-Dixon Line.
A Recommended Read from: The New Yorker • The New York Times • TIME • Oprah Daily • USA Today • Vulture • Essence • Esquire • W Magazine • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • PopSugar • Book Riot • Chicago Review of Books • Electric Literature • Lit Hub
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