Where We Lived: Essays on Places

“Henry Allen is the truest chronicler of our American dream. By taking us into the homes of his history, he reveals our own lives in shafts of sunlit prose streaming through the windows of time and place.”—James Grady, author of Six Days of the Condor

“I loved the book.”—Ann Beattie, author of Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life and The State We’re In: Maine Stories

“Henry Allen, one of the best deadline essayists in the business.”—Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking

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