Demon Copperhead
Kinfolks

The Unsettling of America

Since its original publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. And it is perhaps more relevant than ever, as today’s agribusiness has wrested the cultural and spiritual disclipine of farming even farther from its cultural context and the family’s that practice it. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land—from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it.

Although “this book has not had the happy fate of being proved wrong,” Wendell Berry writes, there are people working “to make something comely and enduring of our life on this earth.” Berry is one of those people, writing and working, as ever, with passion, eloquence, and conviction.

More Adult, Non-Juvenile Books

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  • George Willard is a young reporter on the Winesburg Eagle to whom, one by one, the inhabitants of Winesburg, Ohio, confide their hopes, their dreams, and their fears. This town of friendly but solitary people comes to life as Anderson’s special talent exposes the emotional undercurrents that bind its people together. In this timeless cycle of short stories, he lays bare the life of a small town in the American Midwest.

  • Gregorio Cortez Lira, a ranchhand of Mexican parentage, was virtually unknown until one summer day in 1901 when he and a Texas sheriff, pistols in hand, blazed away at each other after a misunderstanding.