Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta

By Richard Grant

Book Overview

In Dispatches from Pluto, adventure writer Richard Grant takes on "the most American place on Earth"--the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta.

Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New Y

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476709645
• ISBN13: 9781476709642
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Informative with Spunk!

Dispatches From Pluto is a balanced narrative of the experiences and insights of a couple of Northerners who buy a charming but problematic old home in the Mississippi Delta. Grant conveys a range of emotions and observations with reality and a sense of humor living in a culture so different from what they have known, managing to capture the outlooks of the people who have called the area home for generations. Race is of course a theme, but Grant is able to relay the experiences and attitudes of locals with a panoply of the people who make up the past and present calling the Delta home. As a person whose experience of this region is limited I am grateful to learn about it from a writer who treats its idiosyncrasies with openness that neither preaches nor whitewashes the complexity of its history and current challenges. I feel like this review doesn’t do the book justice, because even though I feel I learned a lot about an unfamiliar culture, reading it has been a genuine pleasure. I am impressed with Grant’s writing style and will seek out other books he has written!