Jean Harfenist Recommends
“I regularly give away copies of Weeds by Edith Summers Kelley,” Harfenist says. “It’s an old book (first published in 1923) about the daughter of a tobacco tenant farmer in 1920s Kentucky and it’s the unblinking, outspoken story of a superior young woman trapped by her body and her culture. With the emotional accuracy of Sister Carrie