The chicken chronicles : sitting with the angels who have returned with my memories : Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe : a memoir Cover Image

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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, & Babe : a memoir / Alice Walker.

Walker, Alice, 1944- (Author).

Summary:

For the past several years, on a farm north of San Francisco, the celebrated writer Alice Walker has diligently cared for a flock of chickens. Over time, her blossoming relationship with her girls became a source of inspiration, strength, and spiritual discovery, and helped Walker connect more profoundly with her own past as a girl in rural Georgia.

Record details

ISBN: 1595586458
ISBN: 9781595586452
Physical Description: xv, 186 pages ; 20 cm
Publisher: New York : New Press, 2011.
Distributor: New York : Distributed by Perseus Distribution

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Formatted Contents Note:

Pax Ameraucana, or the chicken chronicles tWho knew what would happen next? -- Four brown eggs! Yaay, space nuts! -- What do chickens like to do? -- Perhaps youve seen her? - I have a persistent thought about my mothers thumb -- So I thought we would just go on like this forever -- Thank you, Rufus! -- Dear Rufus, Agnes, & Co. -- Flying -- Girls! -- How many lost on the journey? -- Gandhi Samadhi -- Mommy is not pure! -- The old fox -- Enough mother -- Leaving you -- St. Michael -- St. Michael, lover of animals and children -- The song behind the world: the nuns of Dharamsala -- Sitting with the angels who have returned with my memories -- From: poems for my girls -- Grandfather Gandhi-and mommys experiments with reality -- A few kind words about stupidity -- Bearded ladies -- In the night mommy hears mangoes falling -- Hi Gladys, Gladys, Gladys, Gladys, Gladys -- Automatic -- Attachment -- Mommy writes about Hortensia -- Mommy is so thankful to have you appear -- Gertrudes neck -- The first day -- Day two -- Looking deeply -- Even bullies are missed and loved -- Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!.