Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

This book is redolent of the farm and the kitchen. You can, I swear, smell the tomatoes cooking down and the turkey roasting. The taste of fresh asparagus and the crisp bite of apples.

Before there were Pigs in Heaven

Set in the South and Southwest, the story follows Marietta Greer as she leaves her childhood home in Kentucky, seeking fresh worlds in a battered VW Bug. Changing her name in Taylorville, she encounters Turtle, an Indian infant, in a tavern carpark.