In the Merrimack Valley A Farm Trilogy
Published October 2024 from Godine (Nonpareil Series #16)
A reissue in one volume of Jane Brox’s acclaimed books – Here and Nowhere Else, Five Thousand Days Like This One, and Clearing Land – which intertwine her family’s story with the quintessentially American history of a New England valley’s immigrants, farmers, and textile workers.
REVIEWS
“Ms. Brox has restored a lost world… Through the beauty of her prose and the sharpness of her eye, [she] has brought her vanished family farm back to life. This, she suggests, is what she owes to the place that made her.”
– THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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“At moments throughout, Brox’s prose almost forces you to stop, to take a moment to let her exquisite descriptions soak in. Her own gift for looking at the world deeply, thoughtfully and straight on is abundantly clear in this trilogy.”
– THE PORTLAND PRESS HERALD
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ADDITIONAL PRAISE
“Tenderly and specifically, generously and with a refreshing breadth of knowledge… [Jane Brox] recreates the past lyrically and resonantly. Memory is love and cherishing of course; but also, it is a weighing and giving.”
– MARY OLIVER, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
“A poignant account of return and recommitment… Brox describes crisply yet with great feeling.”
– NEW YORK TIMES
“Her precise and eloquent prose… strikes unerringly through sentiment and convention to the heart of the matter.”
– CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“A mature…book, thick with emotion but not overwhelmed by it…and reading it…is a genuine pleasure.”
– WASHINGTON POST
PURCHASE ONLINE
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Or locally in Maine from:
Gulf of Maine Books
134 Maine Street
Brunswick, Maine
207-729-5083