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Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South
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Author:
Margaret Renkl
Publisher:
Milkweed Editions
Date:
September 14, 2021
For the past four years, Margaret Renkl's columns have offered readers of The New York Times a weekly dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her home in Nashville. Now more than sixty of those pieces have been brought together in this collection.
What The Reviewers Say
Renkl's sense of joyful belonging to the South, a region too often dismissed on both coasts in crude stereotypes and bad jokes, co-exists with her intense desire for Southerners who face prejudice or poverty finally to be embraced and supported.
...luminous.
Everyone should have a friend like Margaret Renkl: thoughtful, engaged, compassionate and, above all, acutely observant.
Renkl’s essays confront the tired, flat stereotypes of a homogenous, conservative, redneck South, while acknowledging the kernels of truth from which they arise.
