Remembering. San Francisco: North Point, 1988.

Also in Three Short Novels. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2002.

From the back cover:

"After he loses his right hand to a corn-picking machine, farmer and farm-journalist Andy Catlett is profoundly depressed. The weight of his loss exacerbates his perception of the foolishness and wastefulness of the industrial agriculture he has long crusaded against as a writer and dedicated family farmer . . . His journey from spiritual darkness to light, from wounded alienation to healed community, conveyed by Berry's exact and sensitive prose, constitutes an epic poem of American agriculture as much as a short novel. In it, Berry weds more happily than ever before his skills as one of our finest, keenest-eyed, sharpest-eared poets to his moral concerns as our preeminent philosopher of agriculture." Booklist

"The latest in Berry's series (Nathan Coulter; A Place on Earth; The Wild Birds) about the fictional town of Port William, Kentucky - this short, intensely Iyrical novel celebrates 'the hope and dream of membership'in a community of friends and relations, all of whom share in each other's past and in their respect for nature . . . [Remembering] ends as pure poetry." Kirkus Reviews

"Berry . . . writes with grace and eloquence of the beauty in handed-down lives." Publishers Weekly

"In Remembering Wendell Berry has constructed an almost perfect fiction, a sublime meditation on how irrevocable loss is redeemed through a renewed sense of kinship with the land and the past . . . A beautiful and ennobling book." The Washington Post 

Cover illustration by Laurie Anderson. 124 pages.

First Sentences:

It is dark. He does not know where he is. And then he sees pale light from the street soaking in above the drawn drapes.