Jones J. Nicole - Low Country A Southern Memoir - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: J. Nicole Jones is the only daughter of a prominent South Carolina family a family that grew rich building the hotels and seafood restaurants that draw tourists to Myrtle Beach. But at home she is surrounded by violence and capriciousness: a grandfather who beats his wife a barman father who dreams of being a country music star. At one time Jones's parents can barely afford groceries; at another her volatile grandfather presents her with a fur coat. After a girlhood of extreme wealth and deep debt of ghosts and folklore of cruel men and unwanted spectacle Jones finds herself face to face with an explosive possibility concerning her long - abused grandmother that she can neither speak nor shake. And through the lens of her own family's catastrophes and triumphs Jones pays homage to the landscapes and legends of her childhood home a region haunted by its history: Eliza Pinckney cultivates indigo Blackbeard ransacks the coast and the Gray Man paces the beach warning of Hurricane Hazel.
Title: Low Country A Southern Memoir
Author(s): Jones J. Nicole
Publisher: Catapult
Barcode: 9781646221233
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 4/9/2024
Category: Local History