A review by lietmanna
Belonging: A Culture of Place by bell hooks

3.0

This was more of a compilation of essays rather than a cohesive narrative, but I got used to the jumbled thoughts that seemed smashed together and unedited. Hooks shares scattered memories and observations, writing primarily to keep her grandmother alive. Her insights are uniquely hers, and I especially liked the way she spoke of quilting and feminism, building an authentic life/living authentically, black farming and subsistence in rural Kentucky, sub-cultures and fringes and outsiderness, segregation and neighbors and fear and blacks imagining of whites.