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Praying for Sheetrock
Melissa Fay Greene · 1991 · 335 pages
Rural McIntosh County, Georgia, in the 1970s was bypassed by the civil rights movement, until one unemployed, uneducated black man changed life in McIntosh County forever. As evocative of the South as Faulkner and as compulsively readable as well-crafted fiction, Greene's multi-award-winning memoir will captivate everyone who believes that the fight for equality is worth waging.
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Anne Lamott
“This is one of my favorite nonfiction books ever. It’s about a small backwoods county in Georgia in the 1970s struggling to be included in the progress for civil rights and about the idealists who lead the cause against entrenched racism. It’s a story that reads like a novel, filled with eccentrics and ordinary folks. Lovely in every way. If you read it, you will owe me forever.”↗