Book review: Graceland, At Last — by Margaret Renkl

(Milkweed Editions)Hopeful, tender, honest and vulnerable — the essays written by Margaret Renkl (Late Migrations) and published in her op-ed column in the New York Times — that is what they are and more. I love her substance and style. It’s personal without being sentimental; it’s moving without being maudlin. Her writing has a metaphysical feel to it, to me, I see revealed connections where once I thought none existed, and often I am left to ponder, sometimes long after I have finished reading a piece, an … (read more)

(Milkweed Editions) “Late Migrations” is, on the surface, a collection of essays. Astute observations and vignettes of natural surroundings, place and wildlife, that set the scene for anecdotes of family, ancestry and heredity. There’s remembrance and rec … (read more)