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Five thousand days like this one
Amid the turmoil after her father's death - family decisions to be made, the future of their farm to be settled - Jane Brox begins a search for her family's story. The search soon leads her to 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. At the Center of Brox's journey through family history is a poignant question: How can her own family identity - language, food, a grandfather's wish for "five thousand days like this one" - be recovered, when so few traces of former lives are left? And she brings extraordinary attention, lyricism, and respect for real voices to her story - we hear, for instance, her father's words in a stunning evocation of the influenza epidemic of 1918, a harrowing event that came so very close to home. When Five Thousand Days Like This One...
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