In the Merrimack Valley: A Farm Trilogy by Brox, Jane

In the Merrimack Valley: A Farm Trilogy

A journey through both family history and the fascinating and quintessentially American history of New England's Merrimack...
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Author: Jane Brox
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In the Merrimack Valley: A Farm Trilogy by Brox, Jane

In the Merrimack Valley: A Farm Trilogy

$45.18

In the Merrimack Valley: A Farm Trilogy

$45.18
Author: Jane Brox
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A journey through both family history and the fascinating and quintessentially American history of New England's Merrimack Valley, its farmers, and the immigrant workers caught up in the industrial textile age.


After years of living away, Jane Brox made the decision to return to the family farm of her birth, where her aging father still tended the crops. Brox twines two narratives, personal and historic, as she captures the cadences of farm life and those who sustain it, at a time when the viability of both are waning. Amid the turmoil after her father's death, Brox begins a search for her family's story. As Brox explores, she also reflects on the place of the family farm as it evolved from the Pilgrims' brutal progress at Plymouth to the modern world, where much of our food is produced by industrial agriculture while the family farm is both marginalized and romanticized.

In the Merrimack Valley brings together for the first time in one volume Brox's timeless trilogy: Here and Nowhere Else (winner of the L.L. Winship/PEN/New England Award); Five Thousand Days Like This One (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award); and Clearing Land (named a Best Book of the Year by the Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution).

In considering the place of the family farm today, Brox traces the transformation of the idea of wilderness--and its intricate connection to cultivation--which changed as our ties to the land loosened. Exploring these strands, Brox arrives at something beyond a biography of a farm: a vivid depiction of the half-life it carries in our collective imagination.


This Nonpareil edition includes a new introduction by Suzanne Berne, and new afterword by the author.



Author: Jane Brox
Publisher: Nonpareil Books
Published: 10/22/2024
Pages: 584
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.28w x 1.57d
ISBN: 9781567928181

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