Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family

by Jane Brox

Book Overview

In her first book, which won the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, Jane Brox writes of going back to the farm where she grew up, to help her aging father and the troubled brother who works the land... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865476918
• ISBN13: 9780865476912
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: North Point Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful

What a gem, this short book contains the author's musings through a season on the family farm. The author struggles with aging parents and family conflicts while appreciating the land and it's history. The writing is just beautiful--leaves you wanting more. I highly recommend this one.

a little book about a small farm written with unusual poetry and love

I am a city person, and the closest I have been to a small farm is buying apples in the autumn at a roadside stand. I have no idea how I chose to buy this book and Jane's two other ones, but I did buy it and fell in love with it. The poetry is deep; she tells the story of her aging father who in his eighties tries to keep his beloved farm going, her brother who has stayed to help but is angry and sometimes dysfunctional, her mother, and her own return after many years. These are wound around and blended with tales of seasons of growth -- of apples, berries, all sorts of corn and the customers who show up decade after decade to buy what they loved last year. It is truly a spiritual book, and gives this city girl a sense of the enduring earth and its gifts and the people who are closest to it.

Here and Nowhere Else

Here and Nowhere Else captures with its perfect language the timeless undulations of rural living. It is not so much like reading a book as it is like walking the land with someone who respects both the comfort and the pain it can give. A truthful recording of enormous loss and a lyric epitaph for a family farm.