Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History

Name: Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History
Author: Jane Brox
ISBN: 9780783886428

Jane Brox

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Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History

Jane Brox

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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 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?

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