Stand by me - Wendell Berry

'A woven time-travelling book, about love, land, life ... Short stories that link together like trees in a forest' Jackie Morris

On
a clear Kentucky night in 1888, a young woman risks her life to save a
stranger from a drunken mob. Almost a hundred years later, her
great-grandson Andy climbs a hill at the edge of town, and is flooded
with memories of all he has lived, seen and heard of the past century -
of farmers wooing schoolteachers and soldiers trudging home from war; of
the first motor car, the Great Depression and Vietnam; of neighbourly
feuds and family secrets; of grief and betrayal - and of
great
friendship that endures for a lifetime.

These are Wendell Berry's
tales of Port William, a little farming community nestled deep in the
Kentucky River valley. They unravel the story of a town over the course
of four generations, lovingly chronicling the intertwined lives of the
families who call it home.

Affectionate, elegiac and wry, these
uplifting rural fables invite us to witness the beauty and quiet heroism
at the heart of each ordinary, interconnected life.