In this, her third book about her family farm in Dracut, MA, Jane looks at the "larger consideration of the meaning of cleared land and its relationship to other iconic locations in American landscape: wilderness, prarie, mountain, city." She continues to write prose that reads as poetry.

Winner of Best Book of the Year: Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Monteray County Herald.

Winner of the New England Book Award for Non-Fiction.

 

Ms. Brox is a member of the Thoreau Society and currently lives in Maine.