![]() ![]() ![]() I think of this house clamped to the side of Tinker Creek as an anchor-hold. An anchorite's hermitage is called an anchor-hold some anchor-holds were simple sheds clamped to the side of a church like a barnacle or a rock. ![]() I live by a creek, Tinker Creek, in a valley in Virginia's Blue Ridge. The narrator describes the location as well as her connection to it: The first chapter, "Heaven and Earth in Jest", serves as an introduction to the book. ![]() Pilgrim is thematically divided into four sections-one for each season-consisting of separate, named chapters: "Heaven and Earth in Jest", "Seeing", "Winter", "The Fixed", "The Knot", "The Present", "Spring", "Intricacy", "Flood", "Fecundity", "Stalking", "Nightwatch", "The Horns of the Altar", "Northing", and "The Waters of Separation". Over the course of a year, the narrator observes and reflects upon the changing of the seasons as well as the flora and fauna near her home. Written in a series of internal monologues and reflections, the book is told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator who lives next to Tinker Creek, in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Roanoke, Virginia. ![]()
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