You know, Mississippi is home of the blues, and I didn't like the blues for most of my life until I became an adult.

And I heard a young man from my high school, and he was singing a Jay Blackfoot song.

And I was like, why is he singing this with such passion?

They tell a story of sheriff rapping, but being able to go to the juke joint and dance after that.

I think to be able to be funny, to be express yourself in a state that tries to silence that

out of you and understanding at the same time that Mississippi is the source of that creativity.

I think that's, I don't know if that explains it.

Yeah, it does.

Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them.

I'm your host, Tracy Thomas, and today I am joined by Addy E. Kitchens.

She is the debut author behind one of my most favorite

novels of the year, Dominion. If you are a lover of black southern family dramas told with a little

bit of humor and a few twists, I think you should stick around for today's conversation.

Without doing any spoiling, Addy and I talk about this book,

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longing, and masculinity tied together to tell this incredible story. The Stacks book club pick

for August is Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

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