The Chicken Chronicles are fresh and colorful as new laid eggs in a basket. Alice Walker’s chicken journey was sparked by a chance meeting with a solitary chicken on a remote country road. Her deepening wonder about the mystery of chickens in the scheme of life and in her own life, starts Alice on her chicken road.

A resplendent house is built, fresh hay laid in, and roosting bars attached. Soon her colorful chickens are roosting, nesting, scratching for bugs and sharing time with Alice.

Of course their names are unique – Gertrude Stein, Rufus, Babe, Glorious, Splendor, Agnes of God, Hortensia and the Gang of Five; well suited for their bold personalities.

Walker writes about and for her chickens, always drawn by their mystery, always surprised and awed by them. Subtle gems, these pieces are memories and experiences most personal to Walker and to the broader world.
The Chicken Chronicles is a joyful, spirited book – wonderful to savor and read again, I love it! --Marilyn

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The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, H (Hardcover)

By Alice Walker

$21.95

ISBN-13: 9781595586452
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Published: New Press, The, 5/2011

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