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Frances Mayes's memoir of her girlhood in Fitzgerald, Georgia, and of the family and the Southern landscape that shaped her before she left for California and, eventually, Italy. Published by Crown in 2014, 293 pages with illustrations and portraits, plus a reader's guide and an essay by the author. Mayes later made her home in Hillsborough.
Frances Mayes, who lives in Hillsborough, on the meaning of home: a 2022 collection of essays that moves among the houses and places she has lived in and traveled to. Travel writing and personal memoir at once, it comes from a North Carolina author better known for her books about Tuscany.
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