The most important connection between these two books is that they are both about the author's life story. Another major concern is that both authors grew up in Alabama. They both attended college at the University of Alabama. In Darkroom: A Black and White Memoir Lila talks about growing up in Alabama, where there was an ongoing struggle between black and white. In All Over But the Shoutin Rick Bragg talks about growing up in poverty and the difficulties his mother had to face raising him and his brother. “Bragg's first book, Shoutin', was the story of a mother absorbing the cruelties of an alcoholic husband, haunted by his service in the Korean War, and showing how she gave her life, in endless cotton fields, to earn a living. Three