![]() ![]() He is a man committed to his principles, to rescues with uncertain outcomes, and to his wife and the life they've made. Only recently, now that it's too late, has she understood how much she has sacrificed to all of them." "Michael Knowles is a rising young doctor, an ob-gyn at a prominent hospital. The Doctor's Wife = "Lydia Haas has devoted herself to Jesus, her church, and her husband. She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays 'King of the Meadow' with a field of grasshoppers.ģ. She tries to con a coot she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics in the fall she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek = An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons - a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. She ultimately forfeits her illusions and marries a conventional man with whom she finds sufficient contentment as a suburban wife and mother, thus finally coming to accept her parents' values.Ģ. ![]() Her dream of being an actress ends in failure. ![]() Marjorie Morningstar =Novel by Herman Wouk, published in 1955, about a woman who rebels against the confining middle-class values of her industrious American-Jewish family. What would you like to read with me in June? I have not read any of the following but they are on my list or in my stacks. ![]()
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