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  • Daddy's Money

  • A Memoir of Farm and Family
  • De: Jo McDougall
  • Narrado por: Cira Larkin
  • Duração: 6 horas e 12 minutos

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Daddy's Money

De: Jo McDougall
Narrado por: Cira Larkin
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Sinopse

Jo McDougall brings a poet's sensibility to memoir. Recounting five generations of Delta rice farmers, through family archives and oral histories, she traces how the clan made their way into the fabric of America, beginning with her Belgian-immigrant grandfather, a pioneer rice farmer on the Arkansas Delta at the turn of the 20th century. As John Grisham has for a 1950s Arkansas cotton farm, McDougall illuminates an Arkansas rice farm in the 1930s and 1940s. The Garot family's acreage near DeWitt and the town itself provide the stage for McDougall's wry, compelling, and layered account of the day-to-day of rice growing on the farm that her father inherited. In that setting she discovers a rich "universe of words" in the Great Depression, comes of age during World War II, and finds her way alongside "that whole quirky, compelling cast of characters" that comprised her kin. In this conflicted, ironic, southern-but-universal account of betrayal, heartbreak, loss, and joy, "the vagaries and the grace" of the land join forces with the power of money as family bonds are both forged and dissolved. Deeply felt, unsentimental, and often humorous, Daddy's Money presents McDougall's life and the lives of her relatives in the way that all our lives are eventually framed - as stories. "When all else is lost," the author maintains, "the stories remain."

The book is published by The University of Arkansas Press.

©2011 The University of Arkansas Press (P)2016 Redwood Audiobooks

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