Jayber Crowe
by Wendel Berry
Grade A
This is a story of an orphan who ends up the barber of Port William, Kentucky. He watches nearly all the changes of the 20th century from this vantage point, and his experiences and reflections are worth learning from. Berry does get annoyingly preachy, at times, about all the ways are lives are worse by the technological “improvements” of the modern age. However, like most other such complaints, there’s nothing more to be done. Still, I grew to love Port William and hated what these times have done to it. Glad that Berry has brought it–fictionally–back.
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