A review by fern_mollett
Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson

5.0

This collection serves as a beautiful love letter to Wilkinson's rural roots. As always, she writes beautifully, simply, and with so much soul. My favorite, "Praise Song for the Kitchen Ghosts" weaves a beautiful story about the cooks in her life, her past, and her ancestry. A lyrical ode to food from family kitchens.

Favorites
- Terrain
- Black rapunzel
- The water witch on invasion
- The water witch on reading
- O tobacco
- Dig if you will the picture
- The creek
- Dear Johnny p
- Mother's day
- A meditation on grief: things we carry, things we remember
- On being country
- Kitchen ghosts
- Coming of age
- Praise song for the kitchen ghosts