Memory's Keep

"In Memory's Keep, James Kibler has created a world, and remembered a world, so vivid, so real, it becomes part of the reader's world as well." --Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek and Brave Enemies"Memory's Keep fulfills the promise Kibler revealed in Walking Toward Home: He stands with Wendell Berry as an inheritor of Caroline Gordon's mantle for preeminent Agrarian novelists. Like Berry, Kibler explores the relationships among life on the land, family strength, individual sense of self-worth and self-restraint, sense of community predicated upon place and history rather than cash nexus, the inextricable ties of past-present-future, and the incessant narcotic tug of American materialism. Kibler's Clay Bank County, South Carolina, is becoming as bountiful, and pleasantly correcting, a fictional locale as Berry's Port William, Kentucky." --James Cantrell, author of How Celtic Culture Invented Southern Literature"James Kibler makes no bones about it. Memory's Keep is an all-out, full-hearted, sentimental paean to the golden days that were, or might have been, or surely should have been. Anyone who likes the smell of newly turned April dirt, of green fields simmering in summer heat, of freshly planed walnut, will love every page of this fondly authored book." --Fred Chappell, author of I Am One of You ForeverKibler, James E. is the author of 'Memory's Keep', published 2006 under ISBN 9781589803718 and ISBN 158980371X.