The National Book Award-winning author of So Long, See You Tomorrow offers an astonishing evocation of a vanished world, as he retraces, branch by branch, the history of his family, taking readers into the lives of settlers, itinerant preachers, and small businessmen, examining the way they saw their world and how they imagined the world to come.
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"William Maxwell's sensitive prose is the good and careful tool of an artist who is always doing exactly what he means to do." - Eudora Welty
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