Janisse Ray, Author . Milkweed $22 (288p) ISBN 978-1-57131-272-3
Seventeen years after leaving her childhood home in southern Georgia, Ray (Ecology of a Cracker Childhood) moved back to raise her nine-year-old son. The author delivers a lively account of her return to "a place that as a young woman I had...
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Janisse Ray, Author . Chelsea Green $12 (224p) ISBN 978-1-931498-74-6
The author of the American Book Award–winning Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
celebrates South Georgia's humble Pinhook Swamp in an impassioned and poetic account of the area's environmental fragmentation and its subsequent restoration.
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Janisse Ray, Author Milkweed Editions $19.95 (285p) ISBN 978-1-57131-234-1
Ray, a poet and an environmental activist, takes a tough-minded look at life in rural southern Georgia in this blend of memoir and nature study. She presents detailed observations of her family members, most notably her grandfather Charlie, who was "
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Janisse Ray. Chelsea Green, $17.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-60358-306-0
In this enchanting narrative—part memoir, part botany primer, part political manifesto—Ray, author of the acclaimed Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, and lately returning to her childhood obsession with farming, has a mission: to inspire us with her...
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