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Title	:	Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Author	:	Janisse Ray
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	July 28th 2000 by Milkweed Editions (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Environment. Nature. Biography. American. Southern

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

Janisse Ray

Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 3.96 | 2129 Users | 275 Reviews

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Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood spent in rural isolation and steeped in religious fundamentalism grew into a passion to save the almost vanished longleaf pine ecosystem that once covered the South. In language at once colloquial, elegiac, and informative, Ray redeems two Souths. "Suffused with the same history-haunted sense of loss that imprints so much of the South and its literature. What sets Ecology of a Cracker Childhood apart is the ambitious and arresting mission implied in its title. . . . Heartfelt and refreshing." - The New York Times Book Review.

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Original Title:	Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
ISBN:	1571312471 (ISBN13: 9781571312471)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	American Book Award (2000)

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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray (Milkweed Editions 1999)(Biography) is the biography of the author, who was born into a Southeast Georgia junkyard just above the Okeefenokee Swamp in longleaf Georgia pine country. The individual chapters focus on the various denizens of the countryside: indigo snakes, pitcher plants, fox squirrels, and quail. But this book is not only about the author's surroundings; the author reveals that her father is seriously mentally ill. She relates that he

Although I definitely don't share the book's environmentalism views myself, there's not necessarily anything wrong with them, but my problem with this book was that much of the content was the author saying that rural areas, industrial areas and small towns are bad. I really didn't like the pretentious attitude throughout the writing either, it was very grating and annoying.

Perhaps this book received five stars from me out of a certain bias. I did, after all, attend Janisse Ray's reading at SUNY Oneonta in March 2010. I was entranced by a passion I had never witnessed before. Her Southern drawl, her soft voice that spoke so boldly was with me while I read through her book. I could hear every word come out of her mouth and I knew that every thing she said she meant. Maybe had I not experienced Ray's unrelenting passion, I'd afford this text one less star. I spoke

If you ever do pick up this book, I suggest you search for videos on YouTube of Janisse Ray and watch a couple of them - ones of her speaking. Her Southern accent is so rich and beautiful; I heard her voice as I read the book.Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard, and at first I found her writing to be chaotic like a junkyard. A memory here, a story there. The regularity of the book is that she alternates chapters about her childhood with chapters about local ecology. After a while, though, I grew

Astoundingly beautiful, both as a memoir and as nature writing. Some reviewers compared it to Bastard Out of Carolina, a book that I didn't particularly care for. I suppose the comparison comes from the fact that both are about girls growing up in the impoverished rural South. However, where "Bastard" was relentlessly bleak, Janisse Ray's book overflows with love for the place and love for her family. Her stories about her parents, especially her father's struggles with mental illness, are

"What's a cracker?"     "I dunno."     "Then why are you reading that book?"     "A professor recommended it."     "Is it good?"     "I just started."     "The bits you've read aloud to me don't sound very interesting."     "You're missing all of the context."     So the conversation went.  After reading Janisse Ray's Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, I can elaborate.  The word "cracker" is used as a pejorative to describe poor whites in the American South, but like many pejoratives, it has

A beautiful ode to trees, living on the land, and a Southern childhood!