{"product_id":"south-toward-home","title":"South Toward Home","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat is it about the South that has inspired so much of America's greatest literature? And why, when we think of Flannery O'Connor or William Faulkner or Harper Lee, do we think of them not just as writers, but as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSouthern\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e writers? In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSouth Toward Home\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Margaret Eby―herself a Southerner―travels through the South in search of answers to these questions, visiting the hometowns and stomping grounds of some of our most beloved authors. From Mississippi (William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright) to Alabama (Harper Lee, Truman Capote) to Georgia (Flannery O'Connor, Harry Crews) and beyond, Eby looks deeply at the places that these authors lived in and wrote about. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSouth Toward Home\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e reveals how these authors took the people and places they knew best and transmuted them into lasting literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSide by side with Eby, we meet the man who feeds the peacocks at Andalusia, the Georgia farm where Flannery O'Connor wrote her most powerful stories; we peek into William Faulkner's liquor cabinet to better understand the man who claimed civilization began with distillation and the \"postage stamp of native soil\" that inspired him; and we go in search of one of New Orleans's iconic hot dog vendors, a job held by Ignatius J. Reilly in John Kennedy Toole's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Confederacy of Dunces\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. From the library that showed Richard Wright that there was a way out to the courtroom at the heart of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Eby grapples with a land fraught with history and mythology, for, as Eudora Welty wrote, \"One place understood helps us understand all places better.\" Written by Margaret Eby. Hardcover; 240 pages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e#21108547\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Congress Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46037275574332,"sku":"jjm1787251466793","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0676\/6985\/2220\/files\/south-toward-home_1.jpg?v=1787251474","url":"https:\/\/luxecladstore.shop\/products\/south-toward-home","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}