From Publishers Weekly
When she was 10 years old, the author started to tend the farm stand during slack periods; her parents-Italian and Lebanese immigrants-sold produce from their farm in New England's Merrimack Valley. After years away, Brox returned home to live and work on the farm again. She offers here a haunting picture of a troubled brother and their aging parents. The author evokes the rhythms of farm life and the bustle of the stand during corn season. She writes about a blue Hubbard squash, about farmhands and the women who picked blueberries or staked tomatoes. This is a beautifully written tribute to the family farm.
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Review
"A poignant account of return and recommitment, darkened by the realization that her contract with the land might soon be broken . . . Brox describes crisply yet with great feeling." --Maxine Kumin, The New York Times Book Review
"Arresting. With a poet's sensibility and an essayist's search for meaning, Brox gives us keen and sensuous observations of the land . . . The pen is used with compassion, honesty and restraint." --Patti Doten, Boston Globe
"A strangely joyful book. [Brox] looks hard at what she sees . . . And implicit in the quality of her attention is a plea for patience, for the need to see the thing in the context of the time in which it lives." --Amy Godine, Orion
"Brox subordinates dramas of personal longing and disappointment to the longer, larger story of an ancient vocation playing itself out between the implacabilities of nature on the one side and the American present on the other . . . [Her] quest suggests one part of Robert Frost--the effort to unite vocation and avocation, to make the fact the sweetest dram that labor knows." --Franklin Burroughs, Southern Review
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