Among Familiar Shadows

Since its first publication in 2005, Bruce Coffin's beautifully written account of growing up in Woodstock, Vermont in the 1950s, The Long Light of Those Days, has become a New England classic. Now Bruce Coffin is back with Among Familiar Shadows, a more intimate evocation of the people who made the world he grew up in. His portraits of these people-including his own family-are loving but unsentimental. Traveling back through time and memory to stand among their familiar shadows, he shows us how they lived, how they talked, how they raised their children-and how they dealt with tragedy. "This moving and beautifully written book deserves a wide audience." -John Elder, author of Reading the Mountains of Home"This is a New England elegy that will endure." -Bill Henderson, Editor, Pushcart Prize"What pure delight in story telling!" -Marcia Butler, author of The Skin Above My Knee