A review by abroadwell
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews

5.0

This is astonishing writing. It is hard to think that the 1930s and 40s were so different from the modern world, as if they were in another century.

Parts of this book are *rough* to the sensitivities of a modern reader, but I think it would be duplicitous to depict race relations in early 20th century Georgia as anything other than what's written here.

I also don't think that Crews was seeking to be an apologist for racism, but he does frankly report the words and attitudes of his childhood.