After How the Word Is Passed
South to America by Imani Perry
How the Word Is Passed made you confront the monuments and myths that swallow truth whole. South to America refuses to let you look away—Perry walks you through the South's back roads and buried contradictions with the same poetic rigor and personal urgency that made Smith's pilgrimage essential. This is history as lived experience, not lecture, and it will wreck you in the best way.