The Memory of Old Jack

After reading Jayber Crow, I wanted to read more of Wendell Berry, so I bought several books and started with this one. The book is not very long, but packed with so much. It is told in flashback style with Jack remembering different parts of his life, a different event, person, or memory is each chapter. Several of the characters are also in Jayber Crow and promise to be in some of the future books that I will read. The book ended on a sad note, but paradoxically happy about Jack's long and eventful life. One of Berry's favorite themes, the dying out of the simple American farmer, is in this book as well. I highly recommend it and will take a brief break from reading Berry to read a couple of other things before I get to Hannah Coulter.