Returning to Earth (Harrison Jim
Returning to Earth (Harrison Jim In the universally-praised "Returning to Earth," Jim Harrison has delivered a masterpiecea tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and the…
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Returning to Earth (Harrison Jim
In the universally-praised "Returning to Earth," Jim Harrison has delivered a masterpiecea tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and the possibility of finding redemption in unlikely places. His condition deteriorating, he realizes no one will be able to pass on to his children their family history once he is gone. Donald is a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man slowly dying of Lou Gehrig s disease.
Over the course of the year following Donald s death, his daughter begins studying Chippewa ideas of death for clues about her father s religion, while Cynthia, bereft of the family she created to escape the malevolent influence of her own father, finds that redeeming the past is not a lost He begins dictating to his wife, Cynthia, stories he has never shared with anyoneas around him, his family struggles to lay him to rest with the same dignity with which he has lived.