Ava's Man
Book description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South.
This time he’s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but…
Why read it?
2 authors picked Ava's Man as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Rick Bragg’s obsession with a grandfather he ever knew was fascinating. This was a man who lived during the Great Depression. He didn’t wear clothes with holes in them because that was popular, he did it because those were the only clothes he owned. It unveiled the ability of an ordinary man to do extraordinary things, an impressive accomplishment.
From Mary's list on understanding people and their motivations.
Rick Bragg heard of his grandfather all his life, a man of the Great Depression with seven children, and a knack for beating bad luck time and time again. Ava’s Man chronicles his mother’s upbringing by a father who struggled with alcohol, a man despite his faults, who took care of his own, a time when having something meant that you ate that day.
Rick Bragg excels at narrative non-fiction, and with his incredible sense of place, understanding of the culture and of the people, he shows those unfamiliar with the area what it means to be Southern. While his…
From Donna's list on if you love Southern fiction.
If you love Ava's Man...
Tap Dancing on Everest
Tap Dancing on Everest, part coming-of-age memoir, part true-survival adventure story, is about a young medical student, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor raised in N.Y.C., who battles self-doubt to serve as the doctor—and only woman—on a remote Everest climb in Tibet.
The team attempts a new route up…
Want books like Ava's Man?
Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like Ava's Man.
Share your top 3 reads of 2024!
And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.
1,885
readers submitted
so far, will you?
📚 If you like Ava's Man, you might also like...
Radical Friend
Radical Friend highlights the remarkable life of Amy Kirby Post, a nineteenth-century abolitionist and women's rights activist who created deep friendships across the color line to promote social justice. Her relationships with Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, William C. Nell, and other Black activists from the 1840s to the…
Who Is a Worthy Mother?
I grew up thinking that being adopted didn’t matter. I was wrong. This book is my journey uncovering the significance and true history of adoption practices in America. Now, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, the renewed debate over women’s reproductive rights places…
