Dirt (A Review)

Every person has a story. Every story may share similar features, but every story has a history, has meaning, and has a purpose. Every story will be the map that starts a journey and ends with the beginning of another story. The importance of stories and how stories can be so extraordinary is wonderfully described in Dirt: Growing Strong Roots in What Makes the Broken Beautiful, (Grand Rapids: Revell Publishing Co., 2020, 274 pgs, $22.99) by Mary Marantz. Dirt is one of the best and most truthful memoirs of growing up in Appalachia to appear in several years.