![]() ![]() "Everywhere, things snagged me," she writes. The voracious young Dillard embraces headlong one fascination after another-from drawing to rocks and bugs to the French symbolists. ![]() In this intoxicating account of her childhood, Dillard climbs back inside her 5-, 10-, and 15-year-old selves with apparent effortlessness. She remembers playing with the skin on her mother's knuckles, which "didn't snap back it lay dead across her knuckle in a yellowish ridge." She remembers the compulsion to spend a whole afternoon (or many whole afternoons) endlessly pitching a ball at a target. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having it hit straight on. ![]()
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