num_pages: 192
description: Amid the turmoil after her father's death-decisions to be made, the future of the family farm to be settled-Jane Brox, using her acclaimed "compassion, honesty, and restraint" ( The Boston Globe ), begins a search for her family's story. The search soon leads her to the quintessentially American history of New England's Merrimack Valley, its farmers, and the immigrant workers caught up in the industrial textile age.Jane Brox's first book, Here and Nowhere Else , won the 1996 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, and has been represented in Best American Essays . She is a frequent contributor to The Georgia Review . Jane Brox lives in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts.
language: English
title: Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History
titlecomplete: Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History
genres: Biography, Nature, Nonfiction, History, Memoir
ratings_count: 93
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Beacon Press