A Place Like Mississippi all the wrong questions we have failed to confront

we have failed to confront the disaster's true lesson: to be poor

where political combatants fought in real time to decide who would be the nominee

Strange stories of finding lightning victims who have been completely stripped of all of their clothes (through a process known as "the vapor effect")

Illustrations are included

Jake Winroy had no looks

A Place Like Mississippi all the wrong questions we have failed to confrontThis is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created. Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir The South has produced some of Americas most celebrated authors, and no state more so than Mississippi. Names as diverse as Faulkner, Welty, and Ward have