Born Southern and Restless Emerging Writers in Creative Nonfiction |
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| Author:
| Meads, Kat |
| Series title: | Emerging Writers in Creative Nonfiction Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8207-0276-6 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1996 |
| Publisher: | Duquesne University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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An engaging personal narrative about growing up in the South and leaving that region to explore a larger' world. The first generation of her family to attend college, Kat Meads breaks with long-time family tradition and leaves her agrarian roots' to wander rootless: around the country. Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, and I gotta ramble,' she writes in the books' opening essay. These essays give us a writer who is able to take us along as she lives in various places and supports...
More DescriptionAn engaging personal narrative about growing up in the South and leaving that region to explore a larger' world. The first generation of her family to attend college, Kat Meads breaks with long-time family tradition and leaves her agrarian roots' to wander rootless: around the country. Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, and I gotta ramble,' she writes in the books' opening essay. These essays give us a writer who is able to take us along as she lives in various places and supports herself through various odd jobs -- as a potato grader, an artists' model, a secretary, a part-time college instructor. She gives us a wealth of interesting characters -- her father, grandmother, neighbours and relatives, people she meets during her wandering.