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All Over but the Shoutin' is a memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Rick Bragg, detailing his upbringing in rural Alabama as one of three brothers raised by a nearly always single mother in extreme poverty. His father, a Korean War veteran and alcoholic, was often absent. The book highlights Bragg's journey from poverty to a successful journalism career and his ultimate goal of buying his mother a house. The memoir includes depictions of violence, alcoholism, and poverty.