The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agne

by Alice Walker

Book Overview

Here is a glorious, offbeat, compassionate, and "eccentrically inspirational" (Kirkus Reviews) memoir in which Alice Walker shares her experiences raising and caring for a flock of chickens. In pieces that are by turns moving, thoughtful, and utterly captivating, Walker addresses her "girls" directly, sometimes from the intimate proximity of her yard, other times at a great distance, during her travels to Bali and Dharamsala as an activist for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595587748
• ISBN13: 9781595587749
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

A completely entertaining book, even has information about chickens.

Alice Walker has achieved fame for her accomplished writings, and I feel this book is among her best. As someone who has raised chickens, ducks. geese and other domestic animals, I feel Ms Walker went through many of the experiences I did, but her articulation and perception made the whole animal husbandry situation more honest and heartfelt. She weaves together her recollections and forgotten memories to make a story that is much more than just a chicken raising story, but it is also that.