It’s usually the case in books that the story takes place when people are not working: that’s when life, apparently, begins. Gill’s memoir flips that on its head: there is almost nothing in the book outside the work she did, along with troops of others, for almost twenty years: planting trees to replace logged clearcuts …
At the American Library Association meeting in Chicago this week, ForeWord Reviews presented its Editor’s Choice Prize for Nonfiction to Greystone Books for Eating Dirt by B.C. author Charlotte Gill. The 15th annual Book of the Year Awards celebrate independently published titles. We Northwest Booklovers have been great fans of the book, so we’re particularly …
“The humility that lies in the title of Charlotte Gill’s extraordinary Eating Dirt is more than borne out in this astonishing chronicle of work, the elements, and place. Years of the seasonal labor of planting trees in logged-off terrain are written about with verve, wonder and a ravenous ferocity about life, its cycles and rhythms . . …
