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Rick Bragg (b. 1959) is the author of seven books, including the best-selling Ava's Man and All Over but the Shoutin'. He is also a regular contributor to Garden & Gun Magazine. He lives in Alabama.
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"This is a book about getting even with life.
It is the story of a young woman who absorbed the cruelties of her husband,
an alcoholic, haunted Korean War veteran, until she could stand it no more, then
gave up her whole life for her children. By picking cotton, cleaning toilets for
the gentry, doing worse, she made sure that her three surviving sons would not
have to walk around ashamed, in ragged clothes.
In a smaller way it is my story, the boy who climbed up her backbone and made
it out of that ring of poverty and ignorance, free and clean. It is about what I
did with the life she gave me, and how I tried to repay her, and how I
tried--and failed so miserably--to rewrite the past.
The book is set in rural northeastern Alabama, and chronicles a poor, white
trash family through three generations. The first third of the book is mostly
about her and him, and us, me and my brothers, as babies. It shows the agony of
the death of a baby brother who did not have to die, who didn't even get a name.
It also takes us with my father to Korea. He tugged me there, the last time I
saw him alive, when I was just 16. The tales of terror he told me there still
sit like a broken bottle in my mind.
The second third is about...
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