Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama Cover:Hardcover Scholar-Editor Deborah Plant’s "Commentary: A

Scholar-Editor Deborah Plant’s "Commentary: A Story Finally Told" assesses Hurston’s pioneering work and underscores Hurston’s perspective that the first century BCE has much to teach us and that the lens through which to view this dramatic and stirring era is the life and times of Herod the Great

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Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama Cover:Hardcover Scholar-Editor Deborah Plant’s "Commentary: AFrom a New Yorker staff writer and PEN award winner, a blend of memoir, history, and reportage on one of the most complex and least understood states in America. In Alabama, we exist at the border of blessing and disaster. Alexis Okeowo grew up in Montgomerythe former seat of the Confederacyas the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. Here, she weaves her familys story with Alabamas, defying stereotypes about her endlessly complex, often pigeonholed home