Ecology Of A Cracker Childhood

This is the award-winning story of a young girl growing up on a junkyard in southern Georgia, amid the disappearing longleaf pine forests of the southeastern United States. The author vividly details a childhood that included poverty, religious fundamentalism, and her father's mental illness, but that was also marked by a family's love, colorful characters, brilliance, and through it all, the peace and beauty of nature. In a singular and riveting structure, the book alternates between chapt...