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    Rain on a Strange Roof: A Southern Literary Memoir
    Rain on a Strange Roof: A Southern Literary Memoir
    Rain on a Strange Roof: A Southern Literary Memoir
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    Rain on a Strange Roof: A Southern Literary Memoir

    By Jan Whitt

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    A scholar of Southern literature and culture, Jan Whitt has written a personal narrative about adoption, childhood abuse, and fifty years of searching for her family in rural Appalachia. A testament to the power of love and the resilience of the human spirit, Rain on a Strange Roof unflinchingly explores death and loss at the same time that it celebrates the transformative power of love and literature. An award-winning professor, Whitt teaches courses in American and British literature, literary journalism, media, and women’s studies.

    Quoting from films, novels, and short stories about the American South, Whitt weaves a narrative about the necessity for human connection and the desire for home.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRowmanLittlefield
    Release dateMar 22, 2012
    ISBN9780761858300
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