Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home: A Memoir

The “wonderful” (Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Times bestselling author), poignant, and often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months in the rural town he’d fled as a young Black man.

Lise Funderburg is a child of the 1960s, a white-looking mixed-race girl raised in an integrated Philadelphia neighborhood. As a child, she couldn’t imagine what had made her father so strict, demanding, and elusive. Of his past, she knew only that he had grown up in ...