About the Work: Funeral in the South A non-fiction work, it is a poetic memoir and brutally honest account of family and culture, an unspoken and internal search for emotional survival and spiritual peace. Funeral, is Brown's Dixie-based account of the journey of life, along the swampy, tobacco roads of the Carolinas, and one family as well as one man's discovery of its authentic self. An authentic southern tale of laying the past to rest... and the amazing grace that got them Home.