Brox, Jane. Five Thousand Days Like This One; An American Family History. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. 182pp. Paperback - Autographed Copies May be Available.

Jayne Brox is a true Thoreauvian. She is also a poet, and this work of prose echos with poetry, as well as allusions to Thoreau. This is the second in her trilogy written about her family' s history, their New England farm and her relationship to both. Amid the turmoil after her father's death, decisions need to be made and the future of the family farm needs to be settled. Brox, usin gher acclaimed "compassion, honesty, and restraint" (The Boston Globe), begins a search for her family's story. The search leads her to the quintessentially American history of New England's Merrimack Valley, its farmers, and the immigrant workers caught up in the industrial age, but more importantly it reconnects her to the land, nature and our place in both.