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Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story: A Port William Novel
Wendell Berry
Hardback: Counterpoint, 2025
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“Marce Catlett, Berry’s new Andy Catlett novel, brings this interplay of fiction and history to a new level. Though the novel ostensibly remains in Port William, it reads like a memoir, albeit one written in third person and cast in fictional form. As Berry lives into his tenth decade, he meditates on the way a simple story—one held in place and handed down from one generation to another—can shape our lives beyond all expectation . . . A story remembered in its place exerts a moral force. This is what Berry’s new novel shows us. But its inheritors must decide how they will respond to this force. As this novel narrates the history of this story’s life in this place, the Berry family myth takes on a public life and force, requiring its readers to decide how we will respond. May it inspire the local work that produces local benefits, but even more profoundly, may it inspire gratitude for the divine patience and forgiveness that scripts all our stories, even when they are marked by the loss of beloved goods.”
—Jeffrey Bilbro, Plough
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