Reviews

String Too Short to Be Saved: Recollections of Summers on a New England Farm by Mimi Korach, Donald Hall

poachedeggs's review

4.0

A profoundly moving paean to the value of nostalgia, this collection of essays on aspects of life on the writer's grandparents' New England farm had me thinking of a film I'd seen a while back - made by a young female Japanese filmmaker on her grandmother. I'd sat in the theatre with tears streaming down my face the entire movie (thank goodness it was a short one) and you know what - nothing had happened in the movie. Except, of course, you knew that the grandmother was now dead.

gingerholli's review

5.0

One of my favorite books of all time.

lauraschwemm's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

4.5

michaelnlibrarian's review

5.0

Truly a wonderful book - a collection of eleven stories that constitute a memoir that progressively tell a single story.

Donald Hall is an astonishing writer. This is about family, about the importance of place, about change. Remarkable.