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

By Jan Whitt

A student of Southern literature and tradition, Jan Whitt has written a private narrative approximately adoption, youth abuse, and fifty years of looking for her family members in rural Appalachia. A testomony to the facility of affection and the resilience of the human spirit, Rain on an odd Roof unflinchingly explores loss of life and loss while that it celebrates the transformative energy of affection and literature. An award-winning professor, Whitt teaches classes in American and British literature, literary journalism, media, and women’s studies.

Quoting from motion pictures, novels, and brief tales in regards to the American South, Whitt weaves a story concerning the necessity for human connection and the need for home.

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