The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair With Nature
10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2017
The nature memoir – a blend of place-based writing with life story – has been having a “moment” that’s lasted two decades and counting. From Terry Tempest William’s 1992 bombshell Refuge to Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 blockbuster Wild (now a major-ish motion picture!) the hits keep coming. You might think that this success would eventually make the sub-genre crowded, prone to self-indulgence and increasingly outré angles.
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