The Yearling (Annotated)

The Yearling (1938) is a finely wrought coming-of-age novel set in the scrublands of post-Civil War Florida, where young Jody Baxter's attachment to an orphaned fawn unfolds against the hard economies of subsistence farming. Rawlings combines regional realism with lyrical pastoral prose, rendering landscape, dialect, hunger, weather, and animal life with anthropological precision. Within the tradi...