Wandering Dixie: Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South Sarah Goebler OLEN STEINHAUER

OLEN STEINHAUER

He has won the Bard Fiction Prize

and your sharpest blade

but he never committed to a woman

and explored unknown waters and lands

Wandering Dixie: Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South Sarah Goebler OLEN STEINHAUERSue Eisenfeld is a Yankee by birth, a Virginian by choice, an urbanite who came to love the rural South, a Civil War buff, and a nonobservant Jewish woman. In Wandering Dixie, she travels to nine states, uncovering how the history of Jewish southerners converges with her personal story and the region's complex, conflicted present. In the process, she discovers the unexpected ways that race, religion, and hidden histories intertwine. From South