a great read!

I'm so pleased that I snagged this book at the thrift store the other day! It was well worth $.69! Anyone is welcome to borrow my copy, or if you decide to purchase it for $13.00, you will not be dissapointed!

Ava's Man, a riveting memoir by Rick Bragg, (he writes the last-page article in Southern Living) is a book that is simply saturated with southern charm. If you are from the south, you will recognize many of the places mentioned. Guntersville, Gadsden, and Birmingham to name a few! :) Rick tells this true story of his grandfather, Charlie, by painting graphic mind pictures of moonshine stills, red dirt roads, and hardscrabble times in the Depression era. It was a time when cotton was picked by hand, and food was hard to come by. But, because of Charlie's deep love for his family, along with his tremendous grit and determination to work hard, they always had enough to see them through.