The Chicken Chronicles, Alice Walker
The Chicken Chronicles, Alice Walker
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The Chicken Chronicles
Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe: A Memoir

Author: Alice Walker

Narrator: Alice Walker

Unabridged: 3 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/26/2011


Synopsis

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker is known worldwide for her moving literary fiction. In her memoir The Chicken Chronicles, Walker imparts insightful life lessons and wisdom inspired by her experiences with raising chickens. Through the years, her relationship with the creatures strengthened her connection to the natural world-and became a great source of inspiration.

About Alice Walker

Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is a canonical figure in American letters. She is the author of The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, and many other works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Her writings have been translated into more than two dozen languages, and more than fifteen million copies of her books have been sold worldwide.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on July 20, 2013

This is less a book and more a heartfelt bridge Walker offered to her estranged daughter. Like many great thinkers, and many great feminists, Walker lost touch with her heart for part of the way, and she found it again through entering into the symbiotic relationship humans share with chickens. Endur......more

Goodreads review by Nicky on November 17, 2011

I had never read anything by Alice Walker before picking up this book. My partner is a big fan and has all of her works on a shelf which I'm sure I will someday read, however her name isn't why I picked it up. It was the fact that my wife just about died laughing the whole time she was reading it. I......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on January 10, 2024

Alice Walker loves her chickens and I loved this book. Not everyone will love it. Nothing happens other than Alice Walker loving her chickens. She sits with them daily or writes to them from abroad and she ponders life. That's it. She refers to herself as mommy and in the third person which was a li......more

Goodreads review by Peacegal on December 17, 2014

Alternately transcendent and maddening is how I’d describe Alice Walker’s written dedication to her pet hens, The Chicken Chronicles. The wonderful thing about Chronicles is how lovingly the author describes the birds and their individual lives. No doubt, many readers drawn by the “star power” of the......more