A Deeper South: The Beauty, Mystery, and Sorrow of the Southern Road
The author's road trips through the American South lead to a personal confrontation with history
In A Deeper South: The Beauty, Mystery, and Sorrow of the Southern 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 journey of unforgetting and recovering has only just begun.
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Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Pete Candler is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose work has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Bitter Southerner, Washington Post, and elsewhere. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
A beautifully crafted journey through the past and current South that will interest Southerners and readers curious about the region and its history.
-- "Library Journal"Combining the academic seriousness of Clint Smith's How the Word is Passed with the car mileage of Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic, Candler offers an insightful meditation on traveling the South and thinking about its often tragic history.
--Evan Kutzler "H-Slavery"
