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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
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88/100Author:
Imani Perry
Publisher:
Ecco
Date:
January 25, 2022
Winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction.In this blend of memoir, history and travel diary, Princeton University Professor Imani Perry narrates a trip back to her native home below the Mason Dixon line. Her journey is full of detours, deep dives and surprising encounters with places and people through which Perry unfolds a narrative about the South and its centrality to American identity.
What The Reviewers Say
Scrupulously researched and teeming with facts and citations.
Provocative.
... engrossing if erratic.
In this highly personal travelogue, she brings readers along to absorb her observations and internal dialogue.
