Pros: White's style is a quick and fitting summer read with poignant anecdotes. Cons: Not as strong prose as her previous work
"Your great-uncle Melville," said Aunt Eleanor wistfully, "came through the the ceiling from a second-floor bathroom, right over the dining-room table when Pamela was having her garden club luncheon." She reflected bitterly. "And we have sunk to this"...
Pros: Dreamy, thoughtful, surprisingly sharp Cons: Wearing at length without pauses
Bailey White, a regular commentator for NPR, here reads her own essays. (I listened to the audio version. I would strongly recommend you do the same.) She muses on age, and class, and eccentricity, largely with the American South as her backdrop. ...
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