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All We Have Loved
by Julia Nunnally Duncan
Full-length, Paper
$24.99
979-8-88838-398-8
2023
All We Have Loved is an intimate portrait of a woman’s life spent in Western North Carolina—a place of unique culture and traditions. David Huddle proclaims this essay collection to be “an astonishing vision of American life.” In this vision are captured a father’s pocket knife that holds a violent history; a great-grandmother’s wedding ring that conceals a troubled marriage; and a rural life filled with copperheads, hornets, and wildcats. These ominous moments appear in this collection, but other moments affirm the comfort of family and community: a mother’s offering of snow cream after a rare blizzard and a father’s gift of a special book at Christmastime; a husband’s training of an affable red-tailed hawk that becomes part of the family; the author’s memories of a beloved dog and horse; and her mother’s recollections of a hard, but happy childhood in a cotton mill village. Though immersed in the culture of Western North Carolina, All We Have Loved explores universal themes of family love, attachment to a place, and the enduring power of friendship—themes that most readers will find familiar. Robert Inman concludes his praise of this book by asserting: “The best thing about this beautiful work is that it will touch your own mystic chords and bring your own past to vivid life.” All We Have Loved invites readers to be touched and reminded.
Julia Nunnally Duncan is a native of Western North Carolina with family connections in East Tennessee. Her 1960s childhood, her family, and her hometown, Marion, NC, have inspired her writing and fill the pages of All We Have Loved—a slice of small town Southern life. Julia is an award-winning freelance writer and author of eleven books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. She lives with her husband, Steve, a mountain woodcarver, in WNC. They enjoy their rural home and spending time with their daughter, Annie.
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