Remembering :a novel

"Having lost his right hand to a harvesting machine, Andy Catlett loses touch with his farm, his family, his community, and himself. Remembering his reasons for once choosing life on a small family farm—the vision of cattle drinking from a stream, the smell of freshly plowed earth, the goodness of life shared with family and neighbors— he rediscovers the redemption that awaits those of us who are willing to commit ourselves, fragmented and limited as we are, to a life in community with others. Berry writes beautifully, quietly, as one who has reconciled life as we know it with life as it might be. His novel should be read by all who seek to do the same." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)