A review by essjay1
One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton

5.0

In telling his own story Morton has shown how resilient you have to be to survive poverty and mental illness in this so called “lucky country”. Some of the incidents detailed are shocking yet having dealt with our medical system I find them all too easy to believe. And perhaps he helps to broach that city/country divide. Many will read this and wonder why on earth any sane person would live out there. His description of the big skies and red earth, almost a cliche, but when you have grown up there, it is yours. Hard to explain the sense of place, of belonging, but Morton does a good job of it.