A Year Without Months Clay Frake the contemporary science of habits

the contemporary science of habits

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A Year Without Months Clay Frake the contemporary science of habitsThis collection of fourteen essays by Charles Dodd White praised by Silas House as "one of the best prose stylists of Appalachian literature" explores the boundaries of family, loss, masculinity, and place. Contemplating the suicides of his father, uncle, and son, White meditates on what it means to go on when seemingly everything worth living for is lost. What he discovers is an intimate connection to the natural world, a renewed impulse to