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Seventeen years after leaving home "for good," self-sufficient single mother Janisse Ray leaves her comfortable life in Montana to revisit her cracker origins. Craving a life built on "land, history, and blood," she moves into the family's rundown 1920s farmhouse in Baxley, Georgia. There she... read more

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"When I shoved open the door of my grandmother Beulah's farmhouse, shut tight and neglected many heavy-hearted years, I entered a history that stretched backward not simply to the limits of my memory but to the farthest point of my family's memory, although"

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  1. Janisse Ray (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
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Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 1571312722
Page Count: 288

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