Daddy's Money: A Memoir of Farm and Family Paperback - 2011
by Jo McDougall
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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 twentieth 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."
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- Title Daddy's Money: A Memoir of Farm and Family
- Author Jo McDougall
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First printing
- Pages 169
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, AR
- Date 2011-07
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781557289674 / 1557289670
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Women poets, American, Farm life - Arkansas
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011021061
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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