Margaret S. (literish) reviewed on 4/4/2010

Helpful Score: 1

This story of Rick Bragg's journey from the poverty of rural Alabama to the big time as a prize-winning journalist in New York rings true throughout. His accounts of political strife in Haiti to convenience store robberies in New York are heartbreaking. But it's not all serious. Some of his encounters are hilarious. His mother is drawn very sympathetically, giving us a window into the way of thinking of people held down suffocatingly in rural poverty. He glosses over his own romantic relationships except to say that they never work out. But, hey, he's writing the story, he's under no obligation to give us evidence against him. A good read.

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