Hannah Coulter: A Novel
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Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry’s seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman character in its telling. Hannah, the now-elderly narrator, recounts the love she has for the land and for her community. She remembers each of her two husbands, and all places and community connections threatened by twentieth-century technologies. At risk is the whole culture of family farming, hope redeemed when her wayward and once lost grandson, Virgil, returns to his rural home place to work the farm.
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Hannah Coulter is another in a series of many works by Wendell Berry about the fictional town of Port William in Kentucky, Hannah herself being one of The Membership, the close-knit citizens of the town. This is not the first of Berry's works about Port William which I have sought out and read, not only because the stories are intrinsically interesting, but also because the reading itself is so satisfying. Berry is a poet and essayist as well as a novelist. His work is well worth reading
