Clearing Land

Library Bookwatch, Dec, 2004

Clearing Land

Jane Brox

North Point Press

c/o Farrar, Straus & Giroux

19 Union Square West, NY, NY 10003

0865476497 $20.00 1-888-330-8477

Clearing Land: Legacies Of The American Farm combines memoir and history, drawing upon the author's own experience growing up on a family farm with the economic realities that are forcing such farms to extinction in the modern day. Poetic in its reminiscence of a daily life deeply intertwined with nature, cultivating plants and animals, and the joy of simply being alive, Clearing Land is a powerful firsthand testimony sure to evoke memories both pleasant and questionable of those who also lived and worked in agriculture. An emotional and at times spiritual remembrance.