Rain on a Strange Roof: A Southern Literary Memoir by Whitt, Jan

Rain on a Strange Roof: A Southern Literary Memoir (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780761858294)

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Format: Hardcover
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Rain on a Strange Roof: A Southern Literary Memoir by Whitt, Jan

Rain on a Strange Roof: A Southern Literary Memoir

$66.00
Rain on a Strange Roof: A Southern Literary Memoir by Whitt, Jan

Rain on a Strange Roof: A Southern Literary Memoir

$66.00
Format: Hardcover
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A scholar of Southern literature and culture, Jan Whitt has written a personal narrative about adoption, childhood abuse, and fifty years of searching for her family in rural Appalachia. A testament to the power of love and the resilience of the human spirit, Rain on a Strange Roof unflinchingly explores death and loss at the same time that it celebrates the transformative power of love and literature. An award-winning professor, Whitt teaches courses in American and British literature, literary journalism, media, and women's studies.

Quoting from films, novels, and short stories about the American South, Whitt weaves a narrative about the necessity for human connection and the desire for home.


Author: Jan Whitt
ISBN-10: 0761858296
ISBN-13: 9780761858294
Publisher: Hamilton Books
Language: English
Published: 03/22/2012
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.70d
By Jan Whitt
By Jan Whitt
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Jan Whitt was born in poverty in Knoxville, Tennessee, and adopted five months later by fundamentalist Baptist missionaries who struggled with the demands of parenthood. Reliant upon books for escape, Whitt left home in her teens and earned a B.A. in English and journalism and an M.A. in English from Baylor University by working full time at a local newspaper. She received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Denver in 1985, and, today, she is a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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