A review by toniapeckover
Earth Works: Selected Essays by Scott Russell Sanders

4.0

There's a pained bewilderment at the heart of Sanders' writing. I'm a decent man, he seems to say, I've tried to love, to listen, to be more than what I am...so why this ache? The why is there, laced into the stories of his father, and a community which he feels lost to, the slow destruction of the world around us. It's as if his head comprehends it, but his heart just goes on wondering, needing to worry at it. The result of his questions and explorations is a moving and beautiful collection of essays.