A review by lauravm
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux

adventurous challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

Travel writer extraordinaire Paul Theroux gives readers thoroughly engaging, but also deeply sad and frustrating insight into a hidden part of America where time has stood still. The resigned (or stubborn) acceptance of old ways, and the damage done by inequitable progress creates a landscape that is both frighteningly ugly but also somehow beautiful thanks to inexplicable hope and resilience. As always with Theroux, the prose is intoxicating. This one will live in my mind for a long time.