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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

Janisse Ray

Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

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Title	:	Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Author	:	Janisse Ray
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	July 28th 2000 by Milkweed Editions (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Environment. Nature. Biography. American. Southern

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Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood spent in rural isolation and steeped in religious fundamentalism grew into a passion to save the almost vanished longleaf pine ecosystem that once covered the South. In language at once colloquial, elegiac, and informative, Ray redeems two Souths. "Suffused with the same history-haunted sense of loss that imprints so much of the South and its literature. What sets Ecology of a Cracker Childhood apart is the ambitious and arresting mission implied in its title. . . . Heartfelt and refreshing." - The New York Times Book Review.

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Original Title:	Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
ISBN:	1571312471 (ISBN13: 9781571312471)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	American Book Award (2000)

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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray (Milkweed Editions 1999)(Biography) is the biography of the author, who was born into a Southeast Georgia junkyard just above the Okeefenokee Swamp in longleaf Georgia pine country. The individual chapters focus on the various denizens of the countryside: indigo snakes, pitcher plants, fox squirrels, and quail. But this book is not only about the author's surroundings; the author reveals that her father is seriously mentally ill. She relates that he

Astoundingly beautiful, both as a memoir and as nature writing. Some reviewers compared it to Bastard Out of Carolina, a book that I didn't particularly care for. I suppose the comparison comes from the fact that both are about girls growing up in the impoverished rural South. However, where "Bastard" was relentlessly bleak, Janisse Ray's book overflows with love for the place and love for her family. Her stories about her parents, especially her father's struggles with mental illness, are

This is a beautifully written account of growing up in Southern Georgia by an environmentalist who weaves a history of the long term effects of human behavior on the ecology of the area. Chapters alternate between family history and natural history. The family is poor, but their story is (mostly) affectionate and gentle and the family is portrayed in a dignified manner in spite of their difficult circumstances. The author laments the ruin of the forests and disappearance of many species due to

Really enjoying Janisse Ray's take on the southeast...

"When we say the South will rise again we can mean that we will allow the cutover forests to return to their former grandeur and pine plantations to grow wild." If only that's what people meant.I envy her knowledge of flora, fauna and mechanicsyou get specificity in the forests and junkyards. The way she describes the destruction, it's easy to feel like preserving the South as a place is a lost cause. Consequently, her ability to conjure a (disappearing) landscape made it more upsetting than

YALL. This is one of my favorite books, bar none. It is a memoir, both of Janisse Rays childhood and of a crucial ecosystem on the brink of extinction. The landscape that I was born to, that owns my body: the uplands and lowlands of southern Georgia, she begins. Nothing is more beautiful, nothing more mysterious, nothing more breathtaking, nothing more surreal than longleaf pine forests. These forests used to cover at least 85 million acres across the South. Today, fewer than two million acres

A beautiful ode to trees, living on the land, and a Southern childhood!