Dec 25, 2009

A White Heron | What Do I Read Next?

The Country of the Pointed Firs, Jewett’s 1896 novel, is often considered her greatest work and one of the nineteenth century’s best pieces of regional fiction. Set in a New England coastal village and the surrounding countryside, and narrated in a strong female voice, it tells the stories of the typically eccentric people who shape the landscape, and are shaped by it.

Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio (1919) does for the American Midwest what Jewett’s work does...