Our April Front Porch Book Club Pick is Jackie Polzin s Brood
This beautifully written story of chickens and healing is this spring s must-read.
Pull up a seat as we dive in to one book each month with the
Country LivingFront Porch Book Club, capping each month with a chat with the authors themselves. Our April 2021 selection is author Jackie Polzin s Brood!
Brood: A Novel
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Brood, our April Front Porch Book Club selection, author Jackie Polzin’s unnamed narrator grieves the loss of an identity she worries she’ll never get to experience: She yearns to be a mother. A miscarriage has robbed her of this possibility, and the narrator’s world grows small and contained by her grief (an apt feeling as we contemplate emerging back into the world post-pandemic). But then she adopts a brood of chickens.
Our February Front Porch Book Club Selection is Rural Voices
Edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter, this short story collection shines a light on country living.
Pull up a seat as we dive in to one book each month with the
Country LivingFront Porch Book Club, capping each month with a chat with the authors themselves. Our February selection is a short story collection edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter called amazon.com
Rural Voices, our February Front Porch Book Club selection and very first young adult pick, we glimpse moments in the lives of teenagers from Utah to New York, Alaska to Georgia. Their backgrounds and experiences are as varied as their locations, but each one explores an aspect of country living that deserves attention and casts a spotlight on stereotypes and stigmas in illuminating and necessary ways.