Morales has made a moving, provocative pilgrimage through the complex culturemainly southernthat produces country music and some of its outsized performers. I found her very readable. -- Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove Part quirky travelogue, part study of celebrity culture, part autobiography, Pilgrimage to Dollywood is a witty and self-aware account of being transplanted into an alien culture and deciding to revel in its (and ones own) otherness. * Times Higher Education * The heart of the book is Moraless personal meditation on the Dollywood shrine itself, the theme park for feminism, Christianity, and the Old South, its mythical log-cabin home, its worshippers at the Dolly Dollar cash-tills, and the reputation of the whole (deserved or not: discuss) as the redneck Disneyland. This is cultural criticism on holiday . . . frank, self-revelatory, comic and clever, revealing greater identification with the heroine than her day job traditionally allows. * Times Literary Supplement * This is not a book written from the Olympic heights of an objective observer, writes Morales in the introduction to her funny, engaging and erudite book. I confess up front that I love Dolly Parton and her music. * Times (UK) * Itll make you want to experience your own pilgrimage, with the windows down and Jolene blaring. * Bust *
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