Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History

PRAISE for Five Thousand Days Like This One

“A clear-eyed and beautifully written celebration of a place where family, community, history and nature all still matter deeply. It’s been a long time since I’ve read anything that’s caught and held my attention and admiration quite the way this wonderful memoir of life in the Merrimack Valley has.”
– Howard Frank Mosher

“Haunting…. Had Henry David Thoreau the chance, he would be happy to quote Jane Brox.”
– Michael Kenney, The Boston Globe

“A mature, levelheaded book, thick with emotion but not overwhelmed by it…reading it is a genuine pleasure.”
– Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

“A superb book.”
– Yankee Magazine

“This is quite beautiful music, the sound of a family’s life that keeps ringing in a daughter’s ears.”
– Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“A clear-eyed and cogent history of farming, immigrant life and one American family written in prose that sparkles like the Merrimack River once did.”
– Publisher’s Weekly

“Brox’s evocative prose, her delicate transitions, and above all her dignified distance do what good art is supposed to do: transform the personal into the universal, and make the universal accessible to every reader.”
– Boston Magazine

“What compels [Brox], what seems to have emerged as her true subject… is time itself; how relative it is to the landscape that reveals it, how casually we’ve learned to accommodate its evident abstraction yet how easily that same abstraction can be ripened and resolved into moments so luminous and irreducible they remake time in their own image.”
– Amy Godine, Orion

“Tenderly and specifically, generously and with a refreshing breadth of knowledge…. Five Thousand Days Like This One recreates the past lyrically and resonantly. Memory is love and cherishing, of course, but also, it is a weighing and giving. Jane Brox’s book is a wonderful gift to us all.”
– Mary Oliver