Reader recommendation: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
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Warner Brown, Mount Dora, Fla.
Nearly 40 years on, rereading Annie Dillard鈥檚 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek reawakens a sense of 鈥渕ystery, newness, and a kind of exuberant spendthrift energy鈥 arising from her encounters with nature. Poetically, she combines the curiosity of Thoreau with the indeterminacy of Heisenberg, agreeing that 鈥渢here is a higher power, not influenced by our wishes.鈥