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Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama Caribbean & Latin America she has always looked upFrom a New Yorker staff writer and PEN award winner, a blend of memoir, history, and reportage on one of the most complex and least understood states in America. "In Alabama, we exist at the border of blessing and disaster." Alexis Okeowo grew up in Montgomery the former seat of the Confederacy as the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. Here, she weaves her family's story with Alabama's, defying stereotypes about her endlessly complex, often pigeonholed