The Deepest South of All

I promise I don’t love every book I read, I’m just working through a backlog of highly recommended books I own after not reading for several years.

This book is an interesting look at Natchez, MS trying to reconcile history and tradition. These are two very different things that have the same origin point. The author is an outsider and uses his unique perspective to look at the town from angles from which it has long ago lost the ability to see itself.

He weaves this contemporary narrative with an older one highlighting the life of a formerly enslaved man who spent decades on a plantation near Natchez. Both stories are compelling and well told. I recommend this book.