Dick and Phil Wall Talk The Book Keepers Documentary, Loss and Healing

On this heartfelt episode of the Popzara Podcast our own Nathan Evans speaks with the father and son duo of Dick and Phil Wall, husband and son to author Carol Wall, whose memoir Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening: How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart, was released in early 2014 to critical and commercial success. Sadly, it was a success its creator would not live to see; Carol passed away that December, just 9 months after its publication.

Dick and Phil discuss their new film The Book Keepers, Phil’s intimate documentary chronicling his father embarking on the promotion tour of Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening across the country, visiting hundreds of locations in dozens of states. But in the process, however, Dick’s journey becomes less about selling books and more a celebration of Carol’s life, a meditation on not just the effects loss and grief has on each of us, but of healing and celebrating the memory of those we love.