Child of the Woods is a uniquely beautiful collection of short stories and observations from Susi Seguret's experiences growing up in the natural settings of rural Appalachia.
Susi Gott Seguret hails from the depths of Appalachia in Madison County, North Carolina and honed her culinary skills in France, where she resided for over 20 years, earning a diploma in Gastronomy and Taste from the Cordon Bleu and the Universite de Reims. As director of the Seasonal School of Culinary Arts, she is passionate about taste and style, and how they extend from our palate into our daily lives. Editor of a dozen cookbooks, and contributor to several compilations, Susi has written extensively on a variety of culinary ventures for diverse publications.
“With a childhood curiosity and sense of wonder, Susi Gott Séguret
opens our eyes to enduring truths amidst a world too often overcome
with clatter and a loss of harmony with nature and community.”
—Dr. Doug Orr, President Emeritus, Warren Wilson College and
co-author of Wayfaring Strangers
“In Child of the Woods, Susi Gott Séguret transports the reader
into the southern Appalachian culture as only one who has lived it
and loved it could do. Her prose stimulates the senses as
surely as huckleberry jam on a biscuit warm from the wood-fired
oven on a frosty morning.”
—Dr. Alan Haney, Dean Emeritus, College of Natural Resources,
University of Wisconsin Stevens Point and author of Backyard
Stories, Following Old Trails, Jewels of Nature, and Laughing in
the Wilderness
“A must-read for anyone wanting to unlock the clues of passage into
what humans need to become more actualized human beings and fulfill
their potential.”
—Eustace Conway, Mountain Men, Turtle Island visionary
“[A]n incomparable reflection of growing up in the mountains of
North Carolina and Tennessee during the early 1960s that is without
peer for color, atmosphere, humor, music and the qualities that
show how rich life can be.”
—Paul Peabody, Grammy-winning First Violinist, New York City
Ballet
“I laughed, I cried, and by the end I was uplifted. I will be
reading it again. It is just that kind of book.”
—Sheila Kay Adams, NC Heritage Award winner and author of My Old
True Love
“The clarity of Susi Gott Séguret’s imagery evokes a time I fear we
won't see again. She has captured what may be the final moments of
an Appalachian lifestyle that is being replaced by the distractions
and demands of modernity.”
—Wilson Roberts, author of All that Endures and The Serpent and the
Hummingbird
“Séguret’s voice is authentic and pure, the redemptive force of her
imagination seizes on cowpies and cliffsides, caves and foxes and
banjo chords that lift you, for a moment, from the chaos and
clutter of our current lives, into a more idyllic place.”
—Keith Flynn, author of Colony Collapse Disorder and editor of The
Asheville Poetry Review
“From these pages emerge the wonder, the joy, the gratitude of
living in a sacred place…nothing surpasses the beauty of the world
God gave us.”
—Locke Harvey, mother of four and fellow wanderer
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