In the Gathering Woods Author:Adria Bernardi, Adria Bernardi 2000 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Winner Selected by Frank Conroy This years Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner, In the Gathering Woods, contains a cast of characters who hail from the same Italian ancestors, but whose stories come at us unbounded by time and space. The book opens early in the twentieth-century, with a narrators boyhood recollec... more »tions of gathering mushrooms with his grandfather; a narrator who seems still haunted by ambling. The language of these stories is both lyrical and comic, providing insight through the particular details of Bernardis writing.« less