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Long Winters, Short Days

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Long Winters, Short Days

Eighteen essays on what it costs to stay somewhere: the neighbors you inherit, the jobs that leave, the road crew that shows up at four in the morning. Warm, exact, and quietly funny about a place most books only drive through.

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Nora Blake

Nora writes essays from a farmhouse in Maine that is slowly winning. Her work covers labor, small towns, and the quiet math of staying somewhere long enough to know it. She teaches one class a year and answers every reader email, eventually.

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