Windfalls

After canning beets all day, Anna's grandmother told her she'd lost a daughter at birth -- her only daughter -- whom she'd named Lucy, from the Latin word for "light." She'd just told Anna about her "conceit" about canning, that she imagined herself "preserving light, you know, caught in those vegetables and fruits -- I was putting up light in those glass jars, saving sunlight down cellar until we needed it, in the dark of winter" (p. 56).


This is an amazing quote and a great reason for me to want to read this book! How many people would remember that sugar is really stored light energy and express it this way? This appeals to this retired biology teacher!