The domed sky is enormous, nearly cloudless, with a lightly hazy atmosphere. Now, as he threads the line into the corn fields, he sinks to Delta level, where the heat and dirt settle and the stalks rise, blocking the horizon. 49 East, Grant picked up his narrative again, pointing out the shotgun-scarred sign welcoming drivers to Holmes County. Just before he dropped off the levee road of U.S. It just makes me sad that I don’t live there anymore.” “I’m not looking forward to going back right now. Selling the house “was very painful for me,” he admits. Since selling the house in April 2015, he’s been back only twice. Moving away from Pluto, the setting of his bestselling memoir, Dispatches From Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta, was as difficult for him as living here was joyous. Grant grew silent a few miles back, somewhere around Yazoo City. PLUTO - Richard Grant pilots his dustbowl-gray pickup down Bee Lake Road, a faded blacktop buffered by flat Delta farmland and its namesake serpentine oxbow, a swampy memory left by the Yazoo River after it changed course years ago. For more stories like this or to subscribe to The ‘Sip, visit The ‘Sip’s website. This story is our cover story for the fall issue, which is on racks now across the Southeast. This story is our weekly ‘Sip of Culture, a partnership between Mississippi Today and The ‘Sip Magazine.
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