Year 2 Day 5 : One Writer's Garden

Chatting Books Online Year 2 , Day 5. Today's recommended book is : One Writer's Garden: Eudora Welty's Home Place with text by Susan Halton and Jane Roy Brown and photographs by Langdon Clay.

This beautiful book tells the story of Southern writer Eudora Welty and her relationship with her garden. The garden was started by her mother Chestina as a way to soften the borders around their Jackson Mississippi home and has provided the backdrop for much of Eudora Welty's life and writing. With both historical photos of the family in the garden, pages from Chestina's garden journal and current day photographs you get a real sense of this garden as a living thing and develop a deeper appreciation and understanding for the writer as well.

This lovely hardcover book is 272 pages and sells for $ 35v a copy

To purchase a copy come see us at the shop during business hours or you can call or message me to have a copy shipped to you.

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