The Chicken Chronicles
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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

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

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

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