The Haven
112 W. Market Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902
United States
Free and open to the public.
Join the Virginia Festival of the Book to hear Margaret Renkl, author of Late Migrations, speak at the celebration of the Reed Award for Environmental Writing presented by the Southern Environmental Law Center.
The program will recognize two recipients of the 2020 Reed Award, given for excellent writing on the Southern environment in book-length nonfiction and journalism. Book sales and signing will follow.
Why should you attend?
An Indie Next Selection for July 2019
An Indies Introduce Selection for Summer/Fall 2019
A 2019 Okra Pick
A Publishers Weekly “Pick of the Week”
“Beautifully written, masterfully structured, and brimming with insight into the natural world, Late Migrations can claim its place alongside Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and A Death in the Family. It has the makings of an American classic.”―Ann Patchett, author of Commonwealth
“A perfect book to read in the summer … This is the kind of writing that makes me want to just stay put, reread and savor everything about that moment.” ―Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air
“A compact glory, crosscutting between consummate family memoir and keenly observed backyard natural history. Renkl’s deft juxtapositions close up the gap between humans and nonhumans and revive our lost kinship with other living things.”―Richard Powers, author of The Overstory
Margaret Renkl
Margaret Renkl is the author of Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South and Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, where her essays appear weekly. Her work has also appeared in Guernica, Literary Hub, Proximity, and River Teeth, among others. The founding editor of Chapter 16, a daily literary publication of Humanities Tennessee, and a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Carolina, she lives in Nashville.
From Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family—and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world.