She can plow her 200 acres from the seat of her Massey-Ferguson 245, then challenge her fellow farmers to a wicked game of checkers. She can spot a cooter sunning on a log 80 yards away, stalk it, bag it, and parboil the tender turtle meat to sweet perfection. Stroud wrote: “Dori Sanders can whip up a mean pot of pokeweed salad. In these works Sanders introduces characters whose experiences in rural South Carolina reveal the author ’s own intimacy with and deep love of the region. Today Sanders is a writer with two well-received novels to her credit, the bestseller Clover and the more recent Her Own Place. In Dori Sanders ’s case, farming was her life ’s work until well into her fifties, when she began jotting down observations gleaned from years of growing peaches and other produce and selling her wares at a roadside stand. Some are teachers at the nation ’s universities, some travel from place to place, some work the assembly line or the fields. Fiction writers come from all walks of life.
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