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Wilma Dykeman. Family of Earth: A
Southern Mountain Childhood. (The
University of North Carolina Press, 2016.)
177 pp.
he story behind Wilma Dykeman's
" Family of Earth " is almost as captivating
as the book itself. Found in her
belongings after her death in 2006, the
200-page manuscript is an account of
her Depression-era childhood north of
Asheville, North Carolina.
Dykeman's memoir was written in
her twenties, and " never had a chance
with New York publishers " according to
her son, Jim Stokely. And so
she filed it away, and went
on to write the books for
which she's well-known,
both nonfiction ( " The
French Broad, " 1955) and
fiction ( " The Tall Woman, "
1962; " The Far Family, "
1966; " Return the Innocent
Earth, " 1973).
Reading " Family of
Earth " will leave you
knowing that you're
in the company of an
astonishingly perceptive
young writer. Each chapter corresponds
with a year in her life, and each reveals
that Dykeman's connection to nature
and place began early and ran deep.
She shares the characters in her world,
the wisdom of her father, the compassion
of her mother, the hard lives of her
neighbors. When the book ends, Dykeman's
life is just beginning:
I had been happy beside the creek
called Beaverdam. Yet even while I was
there, I was forever leaving . . . For me, it
was a beginning, and could be no more,
no less.
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She's looking forward-at a bigger
life than the one she's been living. We
can celebrate that. But read " Family of
Earth, " and know you've been in the
company of a child who looked at and
listened to everything, living her father's
early warning that " [r]eading is fine, little
girl...[but] books are only how someone
else has seen these things . . . You've got
to go out and see them for yourself. "
We can be glad she did.
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