South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in My Native Land

In her essay collection, Reed "blends David Sedaris-like humor with Southern culinary knowledge, then adds a dash of gentility and a pinch of detail" (Washington Independent Review of Books).

In considering the pleasures and absurdities of her native culture, Julia Reed quotes another Southern writer, Willie Morris, who said, "It's the juxtapositions that get you down here." These juxtapositions are, for Julia, the soul of the South, and in her warmhearted and funny new book, South Towa...