Homecoming
By Charlene Gilbert and Quinn Eli
By Charlene Gilbert and Quinn Eli
Category: Nonfiction
-
$20.00
Jan 06, 2002 | ISBN 9780807009635
Buy the Paperback:
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
The Sports Book
Humanly Possible
Don’t Hold Back
Rhyme’s Rooms
A Renaissance of Our Own
Poverty, by America
Death Row Welcomes You
Happy Days
Inclusion on Purpose
Praise
Homecoming tells a distressing story but delivers an uplifting message. –Jim Hightower
“Revisiting the unbearable hardships encountered by my great-grandparents, grandparents, and parents as they sought to survive the inhuman sharecropping system of the post-Civil War South-a system in many ways more brutal than slavery-my heart breaks again. But reading Homecoming’s account of our ancestors’ determined humility, obdurate courage, and fierce pride in and love of the land, my heart is healed. I see why there is such a thing as ancestor worship. I could not love my sharecropping ancestors more if I had created them myself. That black Southerners still love nature and revere the earth is the legacy of a people whose innate elegance and dignity was always expressed in essentials.” –Alice Walker
21 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read
Just for joining you’ll get personalized recommendations on your dashboard daily and features only for members.
Find Out More Join Now Sign In