A review by superdewa
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry

3.0

This book doesn’t make a good case for what it is and I am still not fully sure—part memoir, part travelogue, part personal musings, part history. I was confused enough that I was ready to DNF it several times in the first third but didn’t have another audio book lined up so kept listening and am glad I did. There’s plenty of food for thought here, often written beautifully. I would have added another star or even two if I had better understood what she was trying to do. Maybe as a white northerner I’m not the intended audience, but I couldn’t really tell whom she saw as her audience.