Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Study Guide

The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is, on the surface, a stream of consciousness journey through the natural world around Tinker Creek, the author's home. This book alternately uplifts and depresses the sensitive reader, as Dillard offers a no-holds-barred look at both the beauty and the ugliness of the natural world. Underneath the surface discussions of how a multitude of plants, animals, and insects survive and procreate, though, is a mysticism and spirituality that Dillard dives into in order to understand her place in this seemingly paradoxical world. (read more)