num_pages: 143
description: 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 with him. She memorably captures the cadences of farm life and the people who sustain it, at a time when both are waning.Jane Brox is also the author of Clearing Land and Five Thousand Days Like This One , the latter of which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in Maine.Winner of the L. L. Winship / PEN New England AwardAfter years living away, Jane Brox made the decision to return to the family farm of her birth, where her aging father still tended their crops, assisted by her troubled brother and other members of the community. In this striking, widely acclaimed memoir of her reintroduction to the land and its habits, Brox captures the cadences of farm life and those who sustain it, at a time when the viability of both are waning.Upon winning the prestigious L. L. Winship / PEN New England Award, Here and Nowhere Else was cited for its "loving, precisely written evocation of a New England place and its people . . . [The book is] reminiscent of Thoreau in its exactness and breadth of implication.""A poignant account of return and recommitment, [which] Brox describes crisply yet with great feeling."— Maxine Kumin, The New York Times Book Review"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 [and] the American present . . . [Her] quest suggests one part of Robert Frost—the effort to unite vocation and avocation, to make the fact the sweetest dream that labor knows."— Franklin Burrows, The Southern Review"This is a book that quietly, insistently speaks to love of land . . . Through Brox's . . . sensitive and powerful language, the reader celebrates but also mourns what seems the inevitable passing of a way of life that [is] rooted in the knowledge of growing things and the secrets of the land."— Daphne Abeel, Harvard Review
language: English
title: Here And Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of A Farm And Its Family
titlecomplete: Here And Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of A Farm And Its Family
genres: Nonfiction, Nature, Memoir
ratings_count: 88
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award
publisher: North Point Pr