Ladybird, Collected
Meg Heriford of Lawrence's legendary Ladybird Diner has compiled her essays into a book, as we've all been begging her to do for ages, and now that book is here: Ladybird, Collected.
This item will be released in early October, 2020.
100% of the proceeds from Raven sales of Ladybird, Collected will go to funding Ladybird Diner's community meal program. Each book purchase funds four meals.
Ladybird, Collected: Collected essays on the evolution of a tiny diner in the middle of the country. These are stories of love and adaptation at the broad intersection of commerce and community, and of how a pandemic changed everything and also nothing about us. Ladybird, Collected is a book you might want to preorder if you are into:
- Sense of place
- Small business culture
- Adaptation amid uncertainty
- Confessed parental shortfalls
- Metaphors
- Pie
- Work/home life balance
- Nods to rocks
- Community interdependence
- Doing the next right thing
- Food security as a measure of justice