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The Home Place

Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

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The Home Place

By: J. Drew Lanham
Narrated by: J. Drew Lanham
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From the fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham.

Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina - a place "easy to pass by on the way somewhere else" - has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, listeners 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 South - and in America today.

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This nature memoir, is beautifully written and was one of my favourite books ever, up to the point of the graphic and upsetting account of the Author killing a deer, with apparently not even the slightest awareness that he was causing the deer pain (the deer does not die immediately). There follows then a comment about how vegans must eat soy beans and a reference to the land they grow on, which lost me as I am vegan and no, we don’t have to eat soy beans. I could not see the book in the same light after this and would not have started reading it had I known this account was included.

Outstanding except for account of killing deer

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