Another North

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The pieces in this collection capture the feeling of being buffeted by great gusts of middle-aged longing. What began as one womans quarrel with Buddhism, especially its doctrine of non-attachment, morphs into a larger question: Whats the right way to love a person or a thing With voluptuous detail and rigorous self-interrogation, Jennifer Brice looks for answers in family lore, personal experience, conversations with friends, and beloved books. The result is a tender, moving, far-reachingsometimes delightfully funny, sometimes achingly poignantexploration of the powerful ties that bind us to one another and to the world around us.

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Jennifer Brice is the author of The Last Settlers, a work of documentary journalism, and Unlearning to Fly, a memoir. Another North is her first collection of essays. Born in Fairbanks, Alaska, she teaches contemporary literature and creative writing at Colgate University in upstate New York.