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Writers from around the world reflect on the power and persuasiveness of memory in this funny, touching, vibrant collection of essays, stories, poems, and art. From country roads to busy airports, from introspective moments to grand turning points, these artists take us back to our first cars, our first loves, our toughest losses, and our brushes with fame--all the moments, big and small, that awaited on the roads we've taken. Join us on a tri...

Born in 1940 to three generations of eastern Iowa farmers, Robert Charles "Bobby" Bancks enjoyed a childhood unique to that era: playing among the crops and animals in warm weather, sledding down snowbanks in cold, attending his one-room school, and learning the lessons of love, loss, and togetherness that sustained his rural community. From funny anecdotes and family vacations to reflections on hardship and tragedy, this memoir of growing ...

Irish sea captain Johnny O'Scanlon hates the idea of closing the family shipping business, but there's no other way to raise the money he needs to pay the medical bills for his grandfather, who raised him after his parents died under mysterious circumstances. To secure his grandfather's future and his own, Johnny has to sell the last, beloved ship of his fleet, the Marigold, for scrap-but what his future holds without the sea, Johnny can't ima...

An intensely imagined third collection from an author whose work has been hailed as "exceptional, " "extraordinary, " "uncanny, " and "refreshing, compelling, and moving." Urban is a "great storyteller" who writes "almost unbearably lovely prose." What unites the unlikely protagonists in these very different short stories is their search for refuge. In the opening story, "The Day of the Beheaded Barbie, " the reappearance of an old friend push...