The creator and principle character of his life account, Rick Bragg is a Pulitzer Prize winning writer who, against the chances, climbed from a lowly conception to a poor family in Piedmont, Alabama to provincial journalist for the New York Times for the Southeastern United States. Bragg was conceived in 1959 to Charles Bragg and Margaret Bundham Bragg. His more seasoned sibling, Sam, was conceived three years prior and his more youthful sibling, Mark, was conceived three years after the fact.
Bragg's punctual adolescence was troublesome because of ...