Remembered Gate: Memoirs by Alabama Writers, The

The Remembered Gate:

Memoirs by Alabama Writers

EDITED BY JAY LAMAR AND

JEANIE THOMPSON

(UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS, $29.95)

Nineteen writers with Alabama ties contributed essays to this book, on topics from race relations to family memories.

In "The Other Sun of God," writer Nanci Kincaid recounts childhood travels through Alabama with her family. "It takes a little imagination to be a good Alabamian," she writes.

In "The First Place," Phyllis Alesia Perry recalls a beloved grandmother who taught her how to fish. She writes, "People you love fall down and sink into the hard ground, rising again in dreams."

These Alabama authors, all boasting stubborn roots in the red clay of this beloved and maddening state, understand such nuggets of wry truth and scatter them like gold throughout these memoirs. WANDA BUTLER

Copyright Southern Progress Corporation Aug 2002
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