South Toward Home

Adventures and Misadventures in My Native Land

De: Julia Reed, Jon Meecham - foreword

Narrado por: Julia Reed, Dan Bittner - introduction

This program is read by the author.

South Toward Home is a wry and humorous audiobook about life and culture in the American South.

In thinking about her native land, Julia Reed quotes another Southern writer, Willie Morris, who said, “It’s the juxtapositions that get you down here.”

These juxtapositions are, for Julia, the soul of the South and in her warmhearted and funny new audiobook, South Toward Home, she chronicles her adventures through the highs and the lows of Southern life - the Delta hot tamale festival, a masked ball, a rollicking party in a boat on a sand bar, scary Christian billboards, and the southern affection for the lowly possum. She writes about the southern penchant for making their own fun in every venue from a high-toned New Orleans dinner party to cocktail crawls on the streets of the French Quarter where to-go cups are de rigeur.

And with as much hilarity as possible, Julia shines her light on the South’s more embarrassing tendencies like dry counties and the politics of lust. As she puts it, “My fellow Southerners have brought me the greatest joy - on the page, over the airwaves, around the dinner table, at the bar or, hell, in the checkout line.” South Towards Home, with a foreword by Jon Meacham, is Julia Reed’s valentine to the place she loves best.

©2018 Julia Reed (P)2018 Macmillan Audio

This one is a keeper

I will have to listen to this book again, probably a few times, to catch everything Julia Reed has to say. Being from Alabama, and having gone to school in New Orleans, there are many things in this book with which I am familiar. I sure wish that I could have known Ms. Reed. She definitely would have been a fun friend to have.

Intriguing and very funny

This was a great listen. Enjoyable and interesting.
Love being able to visualize myself in these stories like a fly on the wall.

new author 2 me; familiar territory well presented

as I learned after getting into the book & then looking her up, Julia Reed has been around for a while & has had a successful writing career about which I knew nothing (though I may have read some of her magazine work without noting its source); no surprise, as there is plenty out there I have missed! I am glad I stumbled on her due to a title that looked interesting & popped up based on other selections of mine; she can be quite arrogant & irreverent, & is a little too raw for me at times, BUT she knows human nature, & knows & loves her south & Mississippi Delta home soil; she is a master storyteller whose yarns touched the heart of this 60+ year old gal born in Birmingham, Alabama, with decades spent in Memphis, Tennessee, who now finds herself temporarily (hopefully) transplanted to the rural bottom of the state of Indiana; thank you for taking us on some of your personal wild rides & reading them to us yourself

Julia Reed IS the SOUTH

I’m an avid reader of Garden & Gun, a decade older, but I can tell you that listening to Julia read her work is about the most fun I have had in the past 5 years!
Have a blast and listen at regular speed as Julia is in a hurry to get it out and leaves you laughing, breathless and wishing the book would go on longer.

Pure Southern...always with an edge.

Pure Southern...always with an edge. Julia may be at her best with this one.