Cozy up with a good book as we explore the magical world of nature through literature. The book club will meet virtually once a month to come together and discuss the reading.
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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
From the fertile soils of love, land, identity, family and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham. In The Home Place, readers meet generations of Lanhams, 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 and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a remarkable meditation on nature and belonging, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South – and in America today.