Colour is the suffering of light: A memoir - Melissa Green

Reminiscent of Cider With Rosie, as disturbing in its own way as Girl Interrupted, this is a poet's blend of memory and imagination.

Melissa Green was determined to be a writer. But for her family, the fifth generation to farm their remote, Massachusetts land, the future was determined by the forces of nature, by thrift, and by hardship. Melissa's gift and her powerful imagination made her an outsider in the family, but also a truthful and poetic observer of her eccentric and stubborn kin.

Colour is the Suffering of Light is an absorbing chronicle of a different way of life, recounted in a language as rich and varied as the landscape and the people so vividly evoked.