Landings

September 1, 2022
The family farm looms large in the American consciousness, but often more as a symbol--for the heartland, self-sufficiency, simpler times--than as the thing itself. Artist Donahue invites readers into the reality of her family's own small Kentucky farm, chronicling a year's worth of heartaches, headaches, and joys. Donahue is frank about the frustrations that attend their lives, from pest animals invading their crops to the inadequacy of her daughter's local schools to the challenge of maintaining her practice as an artist in the face of the farm's relentless demands on her time. Yet even as she questions the decisions that brought her to farming, she celebrates the everyday beauty of the world she lives in. Each journal entry is adorned with dreamy ink-and-watercolor drawings that evoke the ever-changing Kentucky landscapes and shine with the artist's love for the land and the creatures that make a home on it. A loving but grounded ode to farming, Landings will appeal to any reader who feels or dreams of a close connection to the land.

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