All Over but the Shoutin'

by Rick Bragg

I don't recall if I knew that this was written by a journalist before I read it but I realized that I truly enjoy nearly all books, fiction or non, written by former reporters.

This is a memoir, the story of Bragg's childhood in the South through his career culminating in a Pulitzer Prize. It was like the American "Angela's Ashes," with horrific poverty, very sparse language that manages to be poetic at the same time.

This is one I'd read again, definitely.