Southern Exposure: A Few Random, Rambling, Retrospective Pieces of My Life

by Amber Nagle

Overview

In Southern Exposure, Amber Lanier Nagle explores the objects and memories binding her to her childhood, her loved ones, and her beloved South. Through twenty-two warm, evocative stories and personal essays, Nagle marries her past and her present, and recounts a glorious childhood—a childhood immediately familiar to those of us who grew-up in Georgia in the 1960s and 1970s.

Her pitch-perfect observations and recollections range from tributes to boiled peanuts, overalls, and flat cornbread, to her experiences with chickens, to memories of her father, to her fascination of the starry, Southern sky.

A bonafide storyteller, Nagle writes with sumptuous, Southern flavor and charm, capturing the rhythms of her life with grace and artistry.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016152011
Publisher:	Amber Nagle
Publication date:	12/31/2012
Series:	Southern Exposure , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	819 KB

About the Author

Amber Lanier Nagle has always been drawn to books. When she was a freckled six year old, she often crawled under her parents' dining room table and read Dr. Seuss books to a captive audience of disheveled dolls and thread bare stuffed animals. At some point in her childhood, her appetite for reading evolved into the desire to write. She comes from a long line of writers, poets, and the finest storytellers you will ever hear, and so she believes that writing is in her blood.

For most of her life, writing was just a pastime. Then in 2006, after working for eighteen years as an engineer, she reinvented herself as a freelance writer. Today, she specializes in works of nonfiction. Her articles have appeared in Grit, Mother Earth News, Alive, Atlanta Life, Points North, American Fitness, Chatter, and many other magazines.

Her first eBook, "Southern Exposure," is a collection of personal essays and stories focusing on memories, relationships, and unique observations from a lifetime in Georgia.

In the last year, she's concentrated her efforts on "Project Keepsake," a collection of short stories written by friends and family members about their keepsakes and mementos. For more information about the project, visit www.ProjectKeepsake.com .

She is a graduate of both Georgia Institute of Technology and Mercer University and is a member of the Chattanooga Writers Guild and the Georgia Writers Association.

To learn more about Amber, visit her website at www.AmberNagle.com.

Editorial Reviews

Anyone who experienced a carefree Southern childhood will find this collection memorable. Amber's ability to make her readers be a part of the story is rare, as is her ability to make extraordinary tales of the most ordinary events. So excited to see this work available. If you didn't have the honor of growing up "Southern," in the 1950s and 60s, you're in for a wonderfully entertaining history lesson.

Amazon - Nancy Ratcliffe