Still Life with Bread Crumbs
Synopsis:
Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.
Brilliantly written, powerfully observed, Still Life with Bread Crumbs
is a deeply moving and often very funny story of unexpected love, and a
stunningly crafted journey into the life of a woman, her heart, her
mind, her days, as she discovers that life is a story with many levels, a
story that is longer and more exciting than she ever imagined.
My Review:
This book and the story was very personal for me. It touched a nerve for
me that made me both sad and happy, but primarily happy. We are always
growing whether you are 2, 22 or 82. And I don't mean the obvious. There
is no finish line to becoming the person you think you are or should
be. There is only the end and even you reach the end you just want to
make sure that above all you were true to yourself and not necessarily
to everyone around you. Rebecca realizes that sometimes what appears to
be a misfortune is nothing more than a next chapter to the ongoing book
of your life. Sometimes you have to move away, very far away from what
you think you are to find out more about who you are and what you are
capable of. Wonderful book. Relatable and endearing in many ways.
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