07 September 2018
"Culture Shock" in the Oxford American
The fall issue of Oxford American has an essay from me about the Florida town called Starke, where my grandfather moved his family in the early 1960s to operate a whites-only motel. As I say in the essay, “I think my family’s discomfort in Starke was real and, in its way, understandable. I have found it worth describing, at least.”