“All Over But the Shoutin’“ By Rick Bragg

“All Over But the Shoutin’“ is a memoir by Rick Bragg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. The book is a heartfelt and poignant tribute to his mother, a woman who overcame poverty and adversity to provide for her family, and to the power of family, love, and resilience in the face of ’s writing is deeply personal and evocative, as he recounts his own childhood in rural Alabama, the son of a hard-drinking, abusive father who abandoned the family when Bragg was still a boy. Bragg’s mother, Margaret, was left to raise her three sons alone, with little education or means of the challenges she faced, Margaret Bragg was a formidable figure, a woman of strength, determination, and unwavering love for her family. Bragg’s descriptions of his mother are vivid and moving, as he recalls her endless sacrifices and her unwavering devotion to her children. He writes of her working long hours in a cotton mill, of her cooking and cleaning and sewing, of her fierce prote