Author

Juyanne James

  Table Scraps and Other Essays

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A set of personal essays that read like memoir--about growing up in Louisiana, within a family who values and insists on hard work, and a community of spiritual and loving people. Mostly, the essays are about the redemptive qualities of one particular family (Resource Publications, December 2019)

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Praise for Table Scraps and Other Essays:

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Table Scraps is a memoir resolute in its beauty, achieving the impossible yet essential: it enters so wholly and gloriously into that region of immemorial love, both universal and entirely intimate, at once exile and Eden.

                   Caitlin Gilson, author of Immediacy 

                              and Meaning

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On her grace path to the truth, Juyanne James travels through a vivid landscape of humor, blues, and a vivid kind of personal revelation available only in a rare writer . . . . James brings the reader not only into her upbringing in rural Louisiana, but into the heart of a family, with all its challenges, complexities, and, above all, love.

                 David Rutledge, editor of Do You Know

                    What It Means to Miss New Orleans?