My Conversation with a Mule

Pickled Dill—legal name Dale Rufus Dillard—has spent his life learning the hard way: from his mama's correction, honest work, stubborn mules, a sharp-tongued wife named Ola Mae, the death of a little boy, and the long silence grief leaves behind. Told in the warm, weathered voice of an elderly Black Southern cowboy, My Conversation with a Mule is a funny, tender, faith-laced life story about shame...