![]() I dislike the fact that I have to bear up under the weight of the history of this place, of the history of slavery and Jim Crow and sharecropping, the history of this place that made me." "But," she continues, with a rueful laugh, "there's much I dislike about this place. A way of understanding myself: who I am, and where I come from, and who I come from." The familiar southern Mississippi landscape feels like a part of her, too, with its snaking bayous and dense tangles of trees. "There's this entire web of people that I'm connected with, and I think that gives me a sense of myself that is hard for me to access when I'm not here. ![]() On the one hand, "there's a feeling of belonging and of ease and of knowing who I am that I feel here that I don't feel anywhere else," she says. Ward, 40, has chosen to return to DeLisle and raise her children there, despite her profound ambivalence about what the town represents. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Sing, Unburied, Sing Author Jesmyn Ward ![]()
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