French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France by Richard GoodmanMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
My second 24-hour read in a row, and I enjoyed this one a bit more, a narrative non-fiction book.
An American, the author, and his Dutch girlfriend live in a stone house in a very small village in the south of France for one year. By the time spring arrives he decides to have a garden, despite never growing plants before.
The descriptions of the village, the people and what the author does is fairly straight-forward. This was an okay book, but nothing that stood out as spectacular.
Sounds like a great dream to live for a year in another country as they did. Goodman even admits at times it did feel like a dream, and he does acknowledge this was a privilege. We don't see anything of the author's life before or after that year, and while it does focus on the garden, the people of the village seem to be the main topic.
A gift that I should have read a long time ago.
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