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This book is full of so many wonderful surprises. It is by turns a searing memoir, a hilarious travelogue, and a work of vivid reporting about this fractious American moment. Cook's writing is unfailingly searching and honest, and his moving book reveals a person--and a country--at a crossroads. --Eli Saslow, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for The Washington Post and author of Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist LaRue Cook has written an important memoir that takes the temperature of this moment of American upheaval. LaRue is the kind of writer we need now--bold and humble, insatiably curious, certain and unsure. A white writer unafraid to write about race. A man proud to share his scars and his wounds. A brother to us all who believes we can heal if we try. This is a book to read and then give to a friend. This is a book about the heart and soul of We the People. --Marita Golden, author of Saving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World and co-founder of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation.

I thought I was a pretty brave man, 'til I read LaRue Cook's memoir. It took guts to walk away from a cushy corporate job, and even more guts--and great talent--to turn it into such an excellent read. It is Southern at its heart, but universal in its appeal, to strike out, and do what you yearn to do. --Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author of Ava's Man and All Over but the Shoutin' This book is full of so many wonderful surprises. It is by turns a searing memoir, a hilarious travelogue, and a work of vivid reporting about this fractious American moment. Cook's writing is unfailingly searching and honest, and his moving book reveals a person--and a country--at a crossroads. --Eli Saslow, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for The Washington Post and author of Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist LaRue Cook has written an important memoir that takes the temperature of this moment of American upheaval. LaRue is the kind of writer we need now--bold and humble, insatiably curious, certain and unsure. A white writer unafraid to write about race. A man proud to share his scars and his wounds. A brother to us all who believes we can heal if we try. This is a book to read and then give to a friend. This is a book about the heart and soul of We the People. --Marita Golden, author of Saving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World and co-founder of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation.

"""I thought I was a pretty brave man, 'til I read LaRue Cook's memoir. It took guts to walk away from a cushy corporate job, and even more guts--and great talent--to turn it into such an excellent read. It is Southern at its heart, but universal in its appeal, to strike out, and do what you yearn to do."" --Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author of Ava's Man and All Over but the Shoutin' ""This book is full of so many wonderful surprises. It is by turns a searing memoir, a hilarious travelogue, and a work of vivid reporting about this fractious American moment. Cook's writing is unfailingly searching and honest, and his moving book reveals a person--and a country--at a crossroads."" --Eli Saslow, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for The Washington Post and author of Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist ""LaRue Cook has written an important memoir that takes the temperature of this moment of American upheaval. LaRue is the kind of writer we need now--bold and humble, insatiably curious, certain and unsure. A white writer unafraid to write about race. A man proud to share his scars and his wounds. A brother to us all who believes we can heal if we try. This is a book to read and then give to a friend. This is a book about the heart and soul of We the People."" --Marita Golden, author of Saving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World and co-founder of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation."

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In a former life, LaRue Cook was a senior editor at ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com. After an Existential Crisis-and turning thirty-he retreated south to pursue his PhD in creative writing at Georgia State University, where he also teaches English composition and fiction writing. He holds a degree in journalism from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and an MFA from Fairfield University in Connecticut. His nonfiction has appeared in such publications as ESPN The Magazine and Reader's Digest, while his fiction has appeared in Washington Square Review, Barely South Review, and Noctua Review, among other places. He currently resides in Decatur, Georgia, just east of Atlanta, where he's working on a collection of short stories. His home will always be Kingston, Tennessee, if only in spirit.

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