Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: A True Story of Bad Breaks and Small Miracles
Heather Lende
Algonquin Books, Apr 19 2011, $14.95
ISBN: 9781616200510
Anchorage Daily News columnist Heather Lende was riding her bike when a Chevy pickup ran over her with one of the tires rolling over her lap. She has slowly healed encouraged by a retinue of health practitioners, family, and friends. This memoir focuses on healing in her hometown of Haines, Alaska where the townsfolk encourage their favorite columnist to return from the near dead to the living; her late battling mom acting from the grave as her model. The residents are a hearty eccentric group with people like Wilma praying with her feet and others as charming in a frontier way just like her. Realizing the irony of when she was nearly fatally hurt, Ms. Lende muses about musing over her tour of If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name and wondering if she should re-label her tour Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: A True Story of Bad Breaks and Small Miracles. This is a terrific inspirational biography due to the wonderful look at the residents of Haines.
Harriet Klausner
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Gardening had always been one of my passions ,never considered it as a hobby rather took it really serious just like a mission or job or something, your article was really captivating and will surely be a source of motivation for the people who wanted to do it full time or as a hobby, even I had got the same from one of the writings when I was in my school days. The presentation which you gave was really simple yet colorful and complex if one wants it that way, you can widen the details on certain sub topics, just a suggestion but really a nice work. Anyway looking forward to read more of your stuffs, Cheers for Garden
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Praveen M Nair
steins garden.
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