Reading Mary Pride for the First Time*
She sighed. “See, you read different books than I did at your age,” she said with a smile. And then she pressed two unfamiliar books into my hands and urged me to read them. I took them. Of course I would read them. I am a reader, after all. The books she lent me are Mary Pride’s The Way Home and All the Way Home. I had heard of Mary Pride, and was vaguely aware that she began it all in Continue Reading…
December 20, 2007