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

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

Janisse Ray

Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 3.96 | 2129 Users | 275 Reviews

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

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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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A beautiful intertwining of the author's personal story and the story of the longleaf pine forests. They used to cover the south and east of Georgia for mile after mile, and were decimated for profit and to build the cities of the Northeast. When they went, all the interdependent flora and fauna were decimated, too. A story of loss of those forests that parallels the loss of cypress forests and, I understand, mahogany forests as well.Date I read this (guestimated) -- 2001

This book was recommended by someone whose taste I admire. The writing is lovely (shades of both Annie Dillard and Dorothy Allison). But I don't like nature. At all. I don't feel at one with the land, or any tremulous connection to all living things, blah blah blah. I hate people who personify nature, but nature is coldhearted and doesn't care about you. It wants to eat or sting you, if it wants anything at all to do with you. Um, so this book might not have been a good one for ME, but that

I grew up a "Georgia Cracker" not very far from the author. Her writing made me long for my hometown. She is very passionate in her love of South Georgia. She made me look at my beloved southern roots with different eyes. I admit that my strong connection to the area of which she speaks may make me love this book more than other readers but honestly, if you love Southern writing and ecology, this book is for you!

This book is a sad but necessary reminder of the integral role that longleaf pines play in our region and how devastating cutting them down for timber and turpentine has been. I especially appreciated the sections on their ecological relationship with wiregrass, pitcher plants, red-cockaded woodpeckers, and gopher turtles.Since some readers may not be familiar with the area, I would recommend that future editions include photographs. They would help clarify, for example, the differences among

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

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.

"When we say the South will rise again we can mean that we will allow the cutover forests to return to their former grandeur and pine plantations to grow wild." If only that's what people meant.I envy her knowledge of flora, fauna and mechanicsyou get specificity in the forests and junkyards. The way she describes the destruction, it's easy to feel like preserving the South as a place is a lost cause. Consequently, her ability to conjure a (disappearing) landscape made it more upsetting than