From "cottonmouths coiled in the trunks of cypresses and live oaks, Spanish moss hanging so low my grandfather probably had to brush it away from his young face" to "changing my body from soft to hard ...
"GHOST DOGS: ON KILLERS AND KIN" by Andre Dubus III (W.W. Norton & Co., 278 pages, $29). You might take up Andre Dubus III's "Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin" with a box of tissues and a bottle of ...