Ebook: Dispatches from Pluto: lost and found in the Mississippi Delta

First landing -- Serpents in the garden -- Joseph Brake -- Wingshooter -- The oncologist's hitmen -- Field trip -- Elephant in the room -- Deer season -- 92 in the shade -- Po monkeys -- Death row valentine -- Separate and unequal -- Rites of spring -- Holmes County miracle -- Morgan Freeman and the meaning of life -- Election Day -- Grabbing smoke -- You send me.;-- Dispatches from Pluto On a remote, isolated strip of land, three miles beyond the tiny community of Pluto, Richard and his girlfriend, Mariah, embark on a new life. They learn to hunt, grow their own food, and fend off alligators, snakes, and varmints galore. They befriend an array of unforgettable local characters?blues legend T-Model Ford, cookbook maven Martha Foose, catfish farmers, eccentric millionaires, and the actor Morgan Freeman. Grant brings an adept, empathetic eye to the fascinating people he meets, capturing the rich, extraordinary culture of the Delta, while tracking its utterly bizarre and criminal extremes. Reporting from all angles as only an outsider can, Grant also delves deeply into the Delta?s lingering racial tensions. He finds that de facto segregation continues. Yet even as he observes major structural problems, he encounters many close, loving, and interdependent relationships between black and white families?and good reasons for hope. Dispatches from Pluto is a book as unique as the Delta itself. It?s lively, entertaining, and funny, containing a travel writer?s flair for in-depth reporting alongside insightful reflections on poverty, community, and race. It?s also a love story, as the nomadic Grant learns to settle down. He falls not just for his girlfriend but for the beguiling place they now call home. Mississippi, Grant concludes, is the best-kept secret in America.