
Read! Plant! Grow! Native Plants Book Club
Tue, Feb 27
|Birch Tree Bookstore
Join us for a discussion of The Comfort of Crows: My Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl.


Time & Location
Feb 27, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Birch Tree Bookstore, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
Join our partners Watermark Woods and Loudoun County Public Library for the LCPL program: Read! Plant! Grow!, a book club that focuses on native plants. We will be meeting to discuss the book: The Comfort of Crows: My Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a "howling love letter to the world" (Ann Patchett): a luminous book that traces the passing of seasons, personal and natural.
In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons--from a crow spied on New Year's Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring--what develops is a portrait…