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Pros

This tale of adventure explores the good (hospitality, nature, blues) and the bad (a racist history) with insight and humor. It feels like an honest and clear-eyed look at ordinary people living ordinary lives as they are in the south.

Loved this book, from clarksdale, worked in delta, and graduated from dsu in cleveland. I find myself buying more and more books this way where i can enjoy them both reading and listening. Ordered book for english comp 2 college class.

Author has a good way of relaying every day life in a way that is interesting. Eccentrics abound in the delta…. There was so much interesting information about mississippi itself. Fun to read about the creatures and weeds of mississippi.

Richard grant moves with his girlfriend from nyc to a neglected plantation home in deep-south mississippi. Grant's skill as a travel writer keeps this account of his first year in the mississippi delta moving at a steady clip. Morgan freeman. Grant so...  Read More



Cons

Utterly condescending and disgusting. Not for me.

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Quality


Beautiful writing great characters and an acceptance and attempt at understanding cultures that the world could use more of right now


Along the way he entertains us with the vibrant eccentricities of his new home and provides texture to the complexity of the no...  Read More


I ripped through it in a couple of nights


Couple of rips on the cover that i fixed with clear tape

Price


They moved partially out of curiosity and partially for a lower cost of living


After settling in new york city for a period and becoming disenchanted with the cost of living and quality of life afforded by ...  Read More

Packaging/appearance


34i was there to witness the devastating effects of mechanization on my grandfathers once thriving meatpacking business

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    south, great, many and new.
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  • Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 77.6% of the reviews are reliable.
  • This product had a total of 2,708 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 14 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It’s a story some mississippian wouldn’t like


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Quite different from river towns


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Pick up any one of richard grants books and you are likely to want to do what he didhis facility for capturing in the written word the place the people the culture that goes into forming those thingsmakes his work both tempting and compelling


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Dispatches from pluto will leave you wanting to explore the blues clubs in old shacks and the food someone forgot to tell michelin about


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    His frank dialogue with some privately about race was refreshing but sometimes seemed to give the rest of the country a pass on racism


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Grant seems to forget that racism is complicated


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I laughed and cried and hated to see it end


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I grew up in memphis but moved away permanently after 1970

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