Paperback. Purchased today in very good condition from the Homewood Public Library.

Two years I've had this book? It made it all the way across the country in the move. You'd think I'd had a burning desire to read it. I think I just have a burning desire not to give away books before I've had a (second) chance to read them. I tried. I tried HARD. But oh my word, what a dull thing. Ada, the wife character, had been raised in a prosperous household and had no earthly idea how to run the family farm after her husband Inman went to war. At one point they talk of her desire for "chicken and dumplings, and peach pie". Well, it said she goes to church, so why she couldn't ask another parishoner how to make either is beyond me.. except of course by that time she couldn't have afforded the ingredients anyway..

Inman, on the other hand, was a very interesting character. Wounded in the neck, he escapes the convalescent hospital during the war and decides to walk home, no small stretch of the legs. If the story had only been about his life and times, I think I would've read all the way through to the end.

Propped it up outside on a stack of bottled water cartons. Happy reading.

My friends and I found this book on top of a boxes. It was left with a flower and a note that read: I'm a free book on a journey--take me home with you.