Rick Bragg’s memoir, All Over But the Shoutin’, has a lot of potential.  He ostensibly claims it is a story about his mother and growing up extremely poor in Northeastern Alabama.  Bragg grew up with a single mother and a father who drank a lot, and somehow turned into a reporter for the New York Times who won a Pulitzer Prize. Bragg does some things really well with this book.  His depiction of his mother is of a wonderful woman who gave up everything to […]