In "We Have All Gone Away, " his emotionally moving memoir, Curtis Harnack tells of growing up during the Great Depression on an Iowa farm among six siblings and an extended family of relatives. With a directness and a beauty that recall Thoreau, Harnack balances a child's impressions with the knowledge of an adult looking back to produce what "Publishers Weekly" called "a country plum of a book, written with genuine affection and vivid recall.