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This is a wonderful story of the author's maternal grandfather, and one that I would love to recommend to any and all readers of all ages. It's a story about life during the great Depression in the southern Appalachian foothills of Alabama and Georgia, a region hit hard during that period of history. Not a lot has been written about this location during the Depression, but this story gives an excellent glimpse into that time period. The author does not, however, focus on the misery and wrenching poverty so much as the heroism of one man who did every single thing he could to care for and support his family. There are references to revenuers and moonshiners, family life, birth and death, and the determined grit of a family to survive it all, led by a truly great man of his time. The author has a wonderful way of writing a story, in true Southern fashion, savoring words whether spoken or written, like a picnic on the grounds. You can feel the poverty, but you can also feel the victory. Give this book a read and you will feel the American experience of Southerners from the foothills - a hardy people with a long history flavored with struggle and a drive to overcome it all.


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Ava Man Rick Bragg 9780375724442 Books Reviews

This is the first of Rick Bragg's books I've ever read. It is a fantastic read about his grandfather. Mr. Bragg received a Pulitzer prize for his writing and boy, does he ever deserve it. I eventually want to collect all his books. I've also read "All Over but the Shoutin". Another excellent book by Mr. Bragg. As long as he keeps writing, I'll keep reading!
Rick Bragg is one of those writers who oozes all things South when reading his books. I was first introduced to him after he received the Pulitzer, and have stuck with him reading his stuff as fast as they came off the printing press. Loved "Ave's Man". When reading it, felt like I was there buried in the freshly cut grass that gave off it uniqueness sweet smell. Bragg sure know how to wring out the South in his own words.
to fully appreciate this story. As I read, it seemed that every page elicited a "Yep, I remember that!" I was born in 1957, as Charlie's era was fading away, but enough of it remained to make an impression on me. I grew up in Georgia and Alabama, and recognize Charlie's world. Most of my relatives worked in the mills. I knew folks who had actually picked cotton. I've spent nights fishing on the river, throwing an old tire on the fire to keep the skeeters at bay. Sadly, those times are gone. Subdivisions fill the fields where we once shot doves. A strip mall has replaced the old cotton gin. The children and grandchildren of old friends no longer let us hunt the few remaining places where we hunted for years.
Reading this story created an aching inside, a longing for those times and the people who lived them. Rick Bragg has done a remarkable job of capturing the essence of the era and the folks who just lived life as it came to them. People nowadays spend too much time thinking about living- what effect will this have, should I let my child do that, what about his self-esteem. Back then, you just dealt with life as it came to you, good or bad.
Thank you, Rick Bragg, for conjuring up the ghosts of harder but simpler times.
I, like so many others I suppose, was drawn to Bragg's book due to my own family.
I'm a first-generation Hoosier, raised by folks who emigrated from southeast Kentucky in the 1940's. As a matter of fact, that seems to be the only difference between his family and mine....mine left the south for reasons that I am currently researching and are too lengthy to document here.
And Charlie could have been my Papaw, my great Uncles (one of several), a second cousin. Hell, i knew folks just like him. Papaw Charlie is no stranger to me.
There were very few "things" Bragg referenced that were unfamiliar to me.
The whole damn thing reminded me of when we all would gather at Mamaw and Papaw's for Sunday dinner and makes me wonder why we don't do that anymore.
Ava's Man is a wonderful read for a person whose youth was spent during the Depression Decade (my title for the years 1930-40). Rick Bragg is an excellent story teller, and captures the abject poverty of the Depression, reminiscent of Steinbeck and Grapes of Wrath. Of course, Bragg's setting is in a different part of the country from Steinbeck's, but the conditions are not that varied. Bragg's characterizations are outstanding. Charlie Bundrum is a finely etched character whose weaknesses, in some convoluted way, seem to enhance his inherent strengths.

The reader who was born 1940 or after may find it hard to believe the conditions of the 1930's, as Bragg describes them. Charlie, Ava and the many children they begat, had it comparatively well, in that Charlie generally managed to find work as a carpenter and roofer, as well as a market for his moonshine, and Ava contributed to the meager income, in spite of birthing a rather full manger of young'uns.

Ava's Man is first, instructive and an important nugget of truth too easily dismissed in the history of this country. Second, it is entertaining. Bragg takes us into the crowded and sometimes primitive conditions of the era and illustrates with lingua franca of the locale how survival often depended on the resourcefulness of those trapped in the circumstances of dire poverty.

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This is a wonderful story of the author's maternal grandfather, and one that I would love to recommend to any and all readers of all ages. It's a story about life during the great Depression in the southern Appalachian foothills of Alabama and Georgia, a region hit hard during that period of history. Not a lot has been written about this location during the Depression, but this story gives an excellent glimpse into that time period. The author does not, however, focus on the misery and wrenching poverty so much as the heroism of one man who did every single thing he could to care for and support his family. There are references to revenuers and moonshiners, family life, birth and death, and the determined grit of a family to survive it all, led by a truly great man of his time. The author has a wonderful way of writing a story, in true Southern fashion, savoring words whether spoken or written, like a picnic on the grounds. You can feel the poverty, but you can also feel the victory. Give this book a read and you will feel the American experience of Southerners from the foothills - a hardy people with a long history flavored with struggle and a drive to overcome it all.