Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 4th fiction and thought-provoking investigation into antisemitism

and thought-provoking investigation into antisemitism that connects the dots between the tropes and hatred of the past to our current complicated moment

Shunned by the townsfolk for their differences and equally fearful that Jacob may never come home

Acho is a mild-mannered son of a Nigerian American pastor

Dillard's personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs

he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 4th fiction and thought-provoking investigation into antisemitismWinner of the Pulitzer Prize "The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about [Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel." Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence." Dillard's personal