The Bad Poor: Race, Class, and the Rise of Grit Lit by Mitch Ploskonka, Scott Romine (Series edited by) Dark Romance When a new party drug

When a new party drug makes its way to her high school

a kid goes missing

The soft city must consider the organization and layout of the built environment for more fluid movement and comfort

from the author of the Good Morning America Book Club pick River Sing Me Home

Dill bears witness to the river

The Bad Poor: Race, Class, and the Rise of Grit Lit by Mitch Ploskonka, Scott Romine (Series edited by) Dark Romance When a new party drugThe Bad Poor examines the rise of Grit Lit, a movement in contemporary southern literature written by and about poor southern whites. Examining issues of genre, race, and culture, Mitch Ploskonka traces the emergence of this iconoclastic mode through its major authors to reveal a literary cultural identity rooted in difference, marked by resistance to respectability and class performance, and shaped by reckoning with the legacies of whiteness and