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The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, the Gladyses, and Babe: A Memoir
Alice Walker
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Hardcover, 186 pages; 2011
$21.95
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Before she drifted off though she thought about the bliss of sitting with you, how unexpected it was, how exquisite. Did the rest of the world not know about this? Had humans known about it--sitting blissed out with chickens--and somehow lost it? The peace.
The "she" in the excerpt above is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, referring to herself in the third person (as "Mommy"), speaking to her beloved flock of chickens. This unique memoir presents thirty-seven short musings--on the joys to be found in the natural world, the heartaches mankind inflicts upon itself, and Walker's personal journey through life. Many of the entries are written as letters to the "girls," with fond salutations such as "Dear feathered mysteries" and "Beloved sister travelers on the journey." The Chicken Chronicles offers a simultaneously uplifting and heartbreaking view of the world through Alice Walker's eyes.
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