88 reviews for:

Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South

Margaret Renkl

4.2 AVERAGE

durun99's review

4.0

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

dimcc's review

5.0

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

aliceinthelibrary's review

4.5

informative reflective medium-paced

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Very reflective, and a gorgeous writing style. I tend to struggle with essay collections, but soared through this one. I love the variety of topics, all covered with consideration and honesty. It does definitely feel like a bit of a time capsule (despite being published this decade), reading it in the second Trump administration, but still a very worthy read. 

keaross's review against another edition

2.0

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Would have been more relevant it I read it closer to 2020. I also prefer her natural science writing and that wasn't the focus of this collection.

beatniksafari's review

4.0

hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

jessmbark's review

4.0

emotional funny medium-paced

mariannemersereau's review

3.0

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Since I spent a quarter of a century living in the Southern US, I think the author accurately describes the culture and region in this collection of essays, especially when she writes that it has always been "so bound up in both beauty and suffering that it isn't possible to untangle one from the other."

bridgettjensen's review

5.0

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I couldn't love Margaret Renkl's writing more than I do. Her observations are keen and wise and so human.

lwkstar's review

5.0

hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

cmccarthy0327's review

4.5

reflective medium-paced