Book Review #28 - Jayber Crow

Apparently, there is an entire series by Wendell Berry set in the fictional Port Williams, Kentucky. I think I read somewhere that his is the tenth in terms of publication. Maybe reading them all would add some kind of depth...somewhere, but I don't know how because of all the books I read in 2011, this was my favorite. It is reminiscent of Gilead in both scope and message. An older barber reflects on his town, his lonely life, his unrequited love for a good woman married to a dud and what love really means. It's slow and lovely and intimately good.