Buryin' daddy : putting my Lebanese, Catholic, Southern Baptist childhood to rest / Teresa Nicholas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicholas, Teresa.

Series:

Willie Morris books in memoir and biography.

Willie Morris books in memoir and biography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fathers and daughters--Mississippi.

Fathers and daughters.

Mississippi--Biography.

Mississippi.

Nicholas, Teresa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A descendant of Lebanese Catholic immigrants on her father's side and Baptist sharecroppers on her mother's, Teresa Nicholas recounts in Buryin' Daddy a southern upbringing with an unusual inflection. As the book opens, the author recalls her charmed early childhood in the late 1950s, when she and her family live with her grandparents in a graceful old bungalow in Yazoo City, Mississippi. But when the author is five, her eccentric father-secretive, penurious, autocratic, hoarding-moves his growing family into a condemned duplex nearby. Separated from her beloved grandmother and chafing under h

Contents:

Cover; Buryin' Daddy; Part I: "Home Again, Home Again, Jiggedy-Jig"; One; Two; Three; Four; Five; Six; Seven; Part II: "You Don't Know Your Daddy"; Eight; Nine; Ten; Eleven; Twelve; Thirteen; Fourteen; Fifteen; Sixteen; Seventeen; Eighteen; Part III: We Rode, Remembering; Nineteen; Twenty; Twenty-one; Twenty-two; Twenty-three; Twenty-four; Twenty-five; Twenty-six; Part IV: Buryin' Daddy; Twenty-seven; Twenty-eight; Twenty-nine; Thirty; Thirty-one; Thirty-two; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-06634-3

9786613066343

1-60473-971-1

OCLC:

713034497