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Returning To Earth : a Novel by Jim Harrison is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Returning To Earth : a Novel about?

<p>&ldquo;The longtime chronicler of Michigan&rsquo;s Upper Peninsula&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. gives eloquent expression to death and the grieving process.&rdquo; &mdash; Booklist<br> &#160;<br> Hailed by&#160; The New York Times Book Review &#160;as &ldquo;a master&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. who makes the ordinary extraordinary, the unnamable unforgettable, &rdquo; beloved author Jim Harrison returns with a masterpiece&mdash;a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and finding redemption in unlikely places. Donald is a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man slowly dying of Lou Gehrig&rsquo;s Disease. His condition deteriorating, he realizes no one will be able to pass on to his children their family history once he is gone. He begins dictating to his wife, Cynthia, stories he has never shared with anyone as around him, his family struggles to lay him to rest with the same dignity with which he has lived. Over the course of the year following Donald&rsquo;s death, his daughter begins studying Chippewa ideas of death for clues about her father&rsquo;s religion, while Cynthia, bereft of the family she created to escape the malevolent influence of her own father, finds that redeem

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Jim Harrison
Publisher
Grove Press
Published
2018
Language
EN
ISBN
9780802143310
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction
Rating
4.2 / 5 (428 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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