Bobbie Ann Mason

"Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure."

Bobbie Ann Mason

"When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season."

Bobbie Ann Mason

"It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling."

Bobbie Ann Mason