The many dualities of the South can both make you feel connected to the place, but far apart from it at the same time.
Grammy winner Tena Clark knows this all too well and describes it in her new memoir “Southern Discomfort.”
Born in 1953, she has seen the bigotries that still hold firm in her hometown of Waynesboro, Mississippi. The world saw Clark as the daughter of the wealthiest man in the state. But behind closed doors, life couldn’t have been anymore chaotic.
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