Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, (Paperback)

from mrstreme

Janisse Ray carefully intertwined two distinct themes in her autobiographical book, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood. First, there was the theme of her family - an interesting tapestry of men (mostly) and women who made up her genetic landscape. Second, there was the ecological theme - chapters abo...

from lucybrown

Engrossing memoir of growing up in southern Georgia in the sixties and seventies. While poor, Ray's family was better off than many in the wasteland of the Georgia coastal plain. However, her upbringing as the child of a manic-depressive, holy roller father set her apart. Her home was alongside h...

from trav

In my mind, strong solid Southern writing is based upon a strong sense of place. There is no place like the South and Ray does a good job of capturing it. Some of here paragraphs are postcard perfect, and will have you swearing you smell pine trees as you read. This work of non-fiction traces Ray...

from EricaKline

Ray grew up in a junkyard in rural Georgia with forests all around and she combines her rural southern childhood experiences with the ecology of the forests she loved. Erica Kline

from DonnaEverhart

This book was intended for research for my 5th novel, but it was the best, most fun, and interesting "research" I've done in a while! I think I'd have read it anyway - even if it didn't deal with south Georgia where a good chunk of my next book is set simply because her story seemed very interest...