Apron Apocalypse: Lyric Essays

Best-selling novelist and poet Jeanette Lynes lights up these lyric essays with her inimitable wit and verve, making inspired and surprising sense of her past, her obsessions, and her restless wanderings in search of home.

In these deeply entertaining essays, Jeanette Lynes throws out sentences like glittering lifelines to her past self. She brings her rural childhood to life again, drawing insights painful and uplifting from the mire of poverty and seclusion. She charts the challenging inte...