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<p><br><I>Pig Candy</i> is the poignant and often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months. During a series of visits with her father to the South he'd escaped as a young black man, Lise Funderburg, the mixed-race author of the acclaimed <I>Black, White, Other</i>, comes to understand his rich and difficult background and the conflicting choices he has had to make throughout his life. <P> Lise Funderburg is a child of the '60s, a white-looking mixed-race girl raised in an integrated Philadelphia neighborhood. As a child, she couldn't imagine what had made her father so strict, demanding, and elusive; about his past she knew only that he had grown up in the Jim Crow South and fled its brutal oppression as a young man. Then, just as she hits her forties, her father is diagnosed with advanced and terminal cancer -- an event that leads father and daughter together on a stream of pilgrimages to his hometown in rural Jasper County, Georgia. As her father's escort, proxy, and, finally, nurse, Funderburg encounters for the first time the fragrant landscape and fraught society -- and the extraordinary food -- of his childhood. <P> In succulent, e

Author

Lise Funderburg

Publisher

New York: Free Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781416547679

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

4.4 / 5 (36 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14