"Bailey White's dry, low-key drawl is a familiar (and welcome) sound to
millions of National Public Radio regulars. On the radio, her intimate
vignettes of small-town life are loosely held together by their
subjects, who are themselves tightly held together by love, family, and
idiosyncrasy. This episodic mode suits her just as well as a novelist.
In this audio version of Quite a Year for Plums--which, aside
from the occasional bit of atmospheric banjo music, features none but
the author's voice--even the temporary denizens of her fictional
southern Georgia town have their oddities. A bird artist is obsessed by
a vanishing breed of chickens. Another character dreams obsessively of
typography. The permanent townsfolk include a woman who believes in
little spacemen, a pair of bookish retired schoolteachers, and plant
pathologist and banjo picker Roger Meadows, whose peers would like
nothing better than to see him settle down with the right woman."
-- Amazon.com Review
Kayden returns tonight with more from this delightful gem, and has invited Caledonia to join him. Romance - fleeting and formative - is in the air, as are the woodpeckers! Presented Live in Voice.
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A brief, partial account of the experience can be found here. One way or another, I'm going to make sure not to go through that, again.
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