The Chicken Chronicles

By Alice Walker

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

In this 2011 memoir, Alice Walker writes about the flock of chickens she raised at her home in Northern California and what caring for them taught her. Addressing the hens by name in letters and short reflections, she connects their daily lives to memories of her rural Georgia childhood, to meditation and Buddhist practice, and to larger questions about love, motherhood, loss and how people treat animals and one another.

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• Hillary Clinton: “I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carré, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice Walker.”