From Wendell Berrys letter to the author If you want to be wealthy, read this book and live this life. Anybody who passes attentively through its pages will love it. This is a distinguished book that puts you into the company of Aldo Leopold, Harlan Hubbard, and David Kline. Now you have extended the art of farming into the arts, equally fine and necessary, of story telling and picture making. Barbara Kingsolver, from the introduction In your life and work as farmers you and David have enacted for nearly all other people the difficulty and the satisfactions, the happiness and the peril of human life on earth. The revelations hold a much-needed redemption of labor itself. To reveal daily labors like these from the inside out, and explain how Efficiency, the god that rules so much of modern life, can be a soul-killing taskmaster. The world needs books like Landings to record the joy, delight and awe of our creaturely lives on earth. Its a kind of mission work to explain that land itself holds wisdom, and grace comes from reading it every day.
For all those of who have returned to it, or elected not to leave at all, there is so much more to the story. Review Quotes Generational memory seems to have fed a modern assumption that manual labor is for the wretched, and farm life is something to be escaped.
In telling the story of a farm familys 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. Each visual is paired with a written reflection on the days doings, interwoven with the longer-arc history of her family, the farm, and their community. 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 chopping wood, a cow sniffing her head, her daughter tending to goats after a hard day at school. Book Synopsis A hybrid memoir / art book, with an introduction by New York Times Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver.
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