Judevine: A Love Song for a Place and Its People: Raj Tawney In How to Be Enough

In How to Be Enough

bestselling author of Maid and Class

identity is the battlefield on which the twenty-first century's polarized politics are fought

But in the small fishing village of Parrsboro

Jamie Pacton

Judevine: A Love Song for a Place and Its People: Raj Tawney In How to Be EnoughWelcome to Judevine. In the 1970s, as a recent arrival to Wolcott, Vermont, writer David Budbill was inspired by his own working class background to shine a light on the lives of his new neighbors who were, in turns, beautiful, ingenious, struggling, and unseen. These poems became the collection known as Judevine, a raucous, moving, and plain language depiction of a rural community that resonates to this day with its enduring themes of injustice,