Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home: A Memoir

The poignant, often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months in the rural town he'd fled as a young man.

Pig Candy is the poignant and often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months. During a series of visits with her father to the South he'd escaped as a young black man, Lise Funderburg, the mixed-race author of the acclaimed Black, White, Other, comes to understand his rich a…