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The World Was My Garden, Too by Sam Pickering
978-1-948692-14-4 paper 19.95
978-1-948692-15-1 ebook 9.99
5½x8½, 304 pp.
Familiar Essays
May 2019
READ AN EXCERPT: “Allergies,” by Sam Pickering
In The World Was My Garden, Too, Sam Pickering roams New England, Arkansas, the Caribbean, Nova Scotia and the familiar and odd plots of mind and thought. He explores shorelines and climbs “hillish” mountains. He sits on porches and talks to passersby and their dogs. He meets strange and delightful people, most of whom are real. “Reading Pickering,” a reviewer wrote in The Smithsonian decades ago, “is like taking a walk with your oldest, wittiest friend.” “Now,” Pickering says, “I am old, and the friends who thought me witty have fallen off the perch. But that’s okay. What I write makes me smile and mutter, ‘What a guy.’” And what wonderful essays these are—pages that awaken the affections and make readers smile and embrace the beauty of this bruised world.
Sam Pickering grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. He spent 67 years in classrooms learning and teaching and has long been a rummager and writer wandering New England and the South, the Mid-East, Britain, Australia, and Canada. He has written some thirty books and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
An inherently fascinating compilation of deftly scripted and reader engaging essays showcasing a perceptive mind and a born storyteller’s narrative style, The World Was My Garden, Too will prove to be a welcome addition to both community and academic library collections.
—Paul T. Vogel for The Midwest Book Review
If you enjoy Sam Pickering’s essays in The World Was My Garden, Too, you might also like Bob Kinzinger’s A Third Place: Notes in Nature.
kpdavis –
I always slow down and learn things from Sam Pickering. And he makes me laugh.