A review by earlyandalone
Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard

5.0

This book destroyed me, both making me cry with emotion and because I was so angry that Jo Ann Beard can write like this. Both in "Werner" and "Cherie," she inhabits the lives and interiority of two strangers so totally that we believe everything she writes completely. Not only that, we feel like we know them, too. She also writes about animals with more empathy and insight than any other writer I've ever read.