Notes from the porch : tiny true stories to make you feel better about the world Cover Image

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Notes from the porch : tiny true stories to make you feel better about the world / Thomas Christopher Greene.

Greene, Thomas Christopher, 1968- (author.).

Summary:

"From the author of the international bestseller The Headmaster's Wife and other novels comes a collection of essays written during the Covid-19 pandemic while the author sheltered in place in his tiny Vermont town. While in isolation, he observed a small town at its best: neighbors helping neighbors, the joys of gardening, the pleasure of a small boy riding his bike, and walks in the park with his dog Hugo. Childhood memories and stories of family life are intertwined, and what the reader gains is a sense of community, family, and belonging. "I sat on my porch, and thought about how small my world had become," writes Greene. His world, and these stories, may be small, but they show us how the human capacity for love is grand, and how that love is greater than the ills that befall us."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9798891642256
Physical Description: 143 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Edition: Center Point Large Print edition.
Publisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2024.
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

General Note:

Regular print version previously published by Rootstock Publishing.

Formatted Contents Note:

Neglected gardens -- Neighborhood boy #1 -- Cinderella -- Regret -- Mirror Lake -- On baseball -- Magic -- Neighborhood boy #2 -- The ghost in you -- Sweeping -- Life goals -- Nobody recognizes poets -- Strangers -- The only list I will ever make -- Neighborhood boy #3 -- Go your own way -- Pandemic shopping -- Raising wolves -- Silent night -- Proud -- Neighborhood boy #4 -- Circles -- Being John Turturro -- Things I never notice -- Neighborhood boy #5 -- Quarantine -- The cagey veteran -- Foraging -- On baseball #2 -- Change -- Apples -- Kindness -- I'm not crying, you're crying -- Neighborhood boy #6 -- Vaccine -- The flower king -- What do you know about Brendan Behan? -- The much-loved bunny speech -- A funny thing happened on the road to publication -- Romance is a gentleman -- A murder of crows -- When we were pretty -- Our girl Jane -- Neglected gardens #2.