a natural history of love and loss
"Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a . . . portrait of her complicated parents--her exuberant, creative mother; her steady, supportive father--and of the . . . moments that accompany a child's transition to caregiver"--Amazon.
