Meander Belt: Family, Loss, and Coming of Age in the Working-Class South

by M. Randal O'Wain

Book Overview

In Meander Belt M. Randal O'Wain offers a reflection on how a working-class boy from Memphis, Tennessee, came to fall in love with language, reading, writing, and the larger world outside of the American South. This memoir examines what it means for the son of a carpenter to value mental rather than physical labor and what this does to his relationship with his family, whose livelihood and sensibility are decidedly blue collar. Straining the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496213319
• ISBN13: 9781496213310
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"