B. Teeter, ed. Like Drew Lanham himself, this book is big-hearted, funny, generous, and grounded in a deep love for the natural world. WHITE SUPREMACY MEN KILLING AFRICAN AMERICANS AT A CERTAIN TIME IN HISTORY. Born in the midst of a moment of change in the segregated south, Lanhams personal story is the story of his family history: a lineage traced back to a slave named Harry first brought to South Carolina around the turn of the 18th century. node.parentNode.insertBefore(gads, node); Lanham's research and teaching focuses on the impacts of forest management on birds and other wildlife. } © 2023 Milkweed Editions. He's a kindred spirit I hope to meet some day. Drew Lanham is a native of Edgefield and Aiken, South Carolina. In building relationships with his former neighbors, Ali explores questions of land and powerand in remembering a lost connection to this place, finally finds a home he might belong to. I liked the way it evoked the rural South, and I could recognize how similar rural South Carolina was to some rural areas of Georgia that I was familiar with as a child (my parents and grandparents were from Georgia). var source = getCookieWithoutJQuery("source"); If they are not, it's a brilliant satire. function getCookieWithoutJQuery(name) { But we're not going to become too comfortable here, because in addition to the beauty of wild creatures, we also encounter through his eyes two difficult aspects of his story. for(var i=0; i