There's not much narrative to scrape out here. The book does have a direction and a purpose, put it does not push clearly and cleanly toward it. I rate it highly because as the author recounts odd and maudlin episodes of her life, and the mystery of her father's, I found my own thoughts and mem...
Douglas ON THE MARCH. JUNCTION CITY, TOPEKA, KANSAS CITY, EARLY MAY, 1932—WITH A BRIEF DETOUR TO BELLEAU WOOD, FRANCE, 1918, AND SILVER PEAK, NEVADA, 1930— SIBERIA, 1918–1920. Later, what Douglas remembered best was not really his father at all, but the shape of his father, from behind: head bent...
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