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Title details for Landings by Arwen Donahue - Available

Landings

A Crooked Creek Farm Year

by Arwen Donahue
Barbara Kingsolver
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A hybrid memoir / art book, with an introduction by New York Times Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver.


In 130 ink-and-watercolor drawings, the story of one year on a family farm in Kentucky unfolds in captured moments of daily life: Donahue's husband chopping wood, a cow sniffing her head, her daughter tending to goats after a hard day at school. Each visual is paired with a written reflection on the day's doings, interwoven with the longer-arc history of her family, the farm, and their community. In telling the story of a farm family's struggle to survive and thrive, Landings grapples with the legacy of our cultural divide between art and land, and celebrates the beauty discovered along the way.

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  • Release date

    October 11, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9798885740104

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      • ISBN: 9798885740104
      • File size: 195394 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      September 1, 2022
      The family farm looms large in the American consciousness, but often more as a symbol--for the heartland, self-sufficiency, simpler times--than as the thing itself. Artist Donahue invites readers into the reality of her family's own small Kentucky farm, chronicling a year's worth of heartaches, headaches, and joys. Donahue is frank about the frustrations that attend their lives, from pest animals invading their crops to the inadequacy of her daughter's local schools to the challenge of maintaining her practice as an artist in the face of the farm's relentless demands on her time. Yet even as she questions the decisions that brought her to farming, she celebrates the everyday beauty of the world she lives in. Each journal entry is adorned with dreamy ink-and-watercolor drawings that evoke the ever-changing Kentucky landscapes and shine with the artist's love for the land and the creatures that make a home on it. A loving but grounded ode to farming, Landings will appeal to any reader who feels or dreams of a close connection to the land.

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