The Golden Apples

Counting both Kate DiCamillo and Rory Gilmore as fans of the same author is high praise. Remember when Rory paid tribute to Lorelai in her graduation speech: "She filled our house with love and fun and books and music, unflagging in her efforts to give me role models from Jane Austen to Eudora Welty to Patti Smith." It's just possible The Golden Apples, Welty's collection of short stories, was on the Gilmore bookshelves. And DiCamillo says she goes back to Welty's stories all the time for the insight into humanity; Kate called every story "a gift in a different way."