Falling into Place: An Intimate Geography of Home

Quietly powerful essays, weaving keenly observed insights into the mysteries of nature with those of family and community

“It’s not easy,” Catherine Reid writes, “to love a person and a place in equal measure.” Love she does, however, as described in these intimate, lyric essays about the land and people around her. With the inside perspective of a native New Englander combined with her outsider status as a lesbian, Reid explores such paradoxes as those that arise from harnessing wild river...