On Saturday, there was a meeting with the writer Eddy Harris at the Brie municipal library. In the 1980s, at the age of 30, he decided to set out alone, in a canoe, on the Mississippi, seeking in its troubled waters the reflection of his own history and that of his country: the United States. At the end of this initiatory journey over nearly 4,000 kilometers, he published Mississippi his first book which later became a classic of travelogues. Thirty years later, the writer sets out alone on this mythical, immense river, which flows from North to South. From this new journey, he draws a story, Mississippi in the skin, published in 2022. With humor and good nature, the American author answered all the questions asked by the thirty or so people who came. He evoked his taste for traveling around the world, in Africa, in Europe, his definitely North American roots, the reassuring welcome which has always been reserved for him by the white populations encountered along the river as during his first journey. “ The story of his travels makes me want to discover his books that I will hasten to borrow from the library. underlines Maïté Baron, passionate regarding reading.
