J. Drew Lanham

"Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina--a place 'easy to pass by on the way somewhere else'--has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be 'the rare bird, the oddity.' By turns angry, funny, elegiac,...