Laurie Woolery’s “The Care and Feeding of a Gardener” is a novel about love, nature, and mortality, set in a midwestern farm community. The author was the recipient of the Sherwood Anderson Award and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and is the co-founder of the North Carolina Literary Review. The novel follows the lives of Ed and Susan Castile, a local gardener and his wife, as they navigate aging, memory loss, and the changes in their landscape. Readers of literary fiction will appreciate this layered and moving story. Keywords: Laurie Woolery, The Care and Feeding of a Gardener, literary fiction, aging, memory loss, midwestern farm community.
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