Wild Card Quilt - Janisse Ray The World As Home

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      Table of Contents

       ALSO BY JANISSE RAY

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Introduction

       Long Road Home

       Restoration

       Houses Mourn, Too

       Finding Wiregrass

       Uncle Percy

       Keeping the Old School Open

       Syrup-Boiling

       Calico Scraps

       Finding a Man

       The Picture-Taker

       Heroic Vegetables

       Local Economics

       Martin Luther King Parade

       Borderland

       Family Reunion

       Moody Swamp

       Three Deadbolts and a Female Socket

       Wild Card Quilt

       A Natural Almanac

       Raising Silas

       Despair

       Angels, Arise

       Waiting for the Tide

       In This House We Are Not Separate

       Gator Trapper

       The Rural In-Between

       Toward the Promised Land

       Log Trucks at the Crossroads

       Milton

       Bird Dreams

       The Bread Man Still Stops in Osierfield

       Uncle Percy Leaves Home

       Cypress Lake

       Judging the Pork Cook-Off

       A Thousand Lights

       Where the Cutting Ends

       Our Town

       Finishing the Quilt

       A Forest for the Children

       Acknowledgments

       MORE BOOKS ON

       Copyright Page

      ALSO BY JANISSE RAY

       Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

      FOR MY FATHER

      AND MOTHER,

      Franklin Delano Ray and Lee Ada Branch Ray,

      AND FOR

      Susan

      You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me.

      Flare up like flame and make big shadows I can move in.

      Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me.

      Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness.

       Give me your hand.

      —RAINER MARIA RILKE,

      “God Speaks to Each of Us”

       Introduction

      Many years after I left the place I was born, I returned to the family farm in rural south Georgia, hoping to find there a home I had been looking for all my full-grown life.

      These stories are from those years on the farm. All of them relate to coming back and making a life in a place that held my past, a place that as a young woman I had gladly left behind. In this book I rejoin with place, land, kin, history, and neighbors in an attempt to gather

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