The Bad Poor: Race, Class, and the Rise of Grit Lit by Mitch Ploskonka, Scott Romine (Series edited by) Memoir But something strange is going

But something strange is going on with Thomas

And no matter how often I’m told to forget it and move on as Torin’s mate

part lament for our ongoing ecological crisis

For readers of Nghi Vo’s The Empress of Salt and Fortune

A New Yorker

The Bad Poor: Race, Class, and the Rise of Grit Lit by Mitch Ploskonka, Scott Romine (Series edited by) Memoir But something strange is goingThe Bad Poor examines the rise of Grit Lit, a movement in contemporary southern literature written by and about poor southern whites. Examining issues of genre, race, and culture, Mitch Ploskonka traces the emergence of this iconoclastic mode through its major authors to reveal a literary cultural identity rooted in difference, marked by resistance to respectability and class performance, and shaped by reckoning with the legacies of whiteness and