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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood. By Janisse Ray. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1999. 285 pp. Paper $14.95.
On the cover of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Janisse Ray is touted as the Rachael Carson of the Southeast. Such a statement is not far off the mark, but it does not tell enough about this unusual memoir. Ray, a self-described cracker, grew up in the flat, humid wiregrass of the South Georgia coastal plain. Her parents claimed they found her on a bed of pine needles under "bayonet-tipped palmetto fronds" in their junkyard (p. 6). . . .
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