A Deeper South: The Beauty, Mystery, and Sorrow of the Southe Road

by: Pete Candler (Author)

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press

Publication Date: 2024/5/21

Language: English

Print Length: 400 pages

ISBN-10: 1643364790

ISBN-13: 9781643364797

Book Description

The author’s road trips through the American South lead to a personal confrontation with historyIn A Deeper South: The Beauty, Mystery, and Sorrow of the Southe Road, Pete Candler offers a travel narrative drawn from twenty-five years of road-tripping through the backroads of the American South. Featuring Candler’s own photography, the book taps into the public imagination and the process of both remembering and forgetting that define our collective memory of place. Candler, who belongs to one of Georgia’s most recognizable families, confronts the uncomfortable truths of his own ancestors’ roles in the South’s legacy of white supremacy with a masterful mix of authority and a humbling sense that his own jouey of unforgetting and recovering has only just begun.

About the Author

The author’s road trips through the American South lead to a personal confrontation with historyIn A Deeper South: The Beauty, Mystery, and Sorrow of the Southe Road, Pete Candler offers a travel narrative drawn from twenty-five years of road-tripping through the backroads of the American South. Featuring Candler’s own photography, the book taps into the public imagination and the process of both remembering and forgetting that define our collective memory of place. Candler, who belongs to one of Georgia’s most recognizable families, confronts the uncomfortable truths of his own ancestors’ roles in the South’s legacy of white supremacy with a masterful mix of authority and a humbling sense that his own jouey of unforgetting and recovering has only just begun.