Buryin' Daddy: Putting My Lebanese, Catholic, Southern Baptist Childhood to Rest

by Teresa Nicholas

A descendant of Lebanese Catholic immigrants on her father's side and Baptist sharecroppers on her mother's, Teresa Nicholas recounts in Buryin' Daddy a southern upbringing with an unusual inflection. As the book opens, the author recalls her charmed early childhood in the late 1950s, when she and her family live with her grandparents in a graceful old bungalow in Yazoo City, Mississippi. But when the author is five, her eccentric father--secretive,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604739703
• ISBN13: 9781604739701
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.5"