Year of Plenty by B J Hollars
Written in vignettes and accompanied by photographs and family interviews, Year of Plenty provides a poignant and unflinching account of how death separates us not only from the people we love but from places and memories too.
“When BJ. Hollars is in college, working as a counselor at a camp for child cancer survivors, a ten-year-old boy explains that the feeling of dying is ‘like being alive, only. . . you notice things.’ In Year of Plenty, Hollars helps show us how it’s possible to stay present, how to notice, even--or especially--when we’re in the thick of it. I fell in love with this whole beautiful family--and then I took some of that cracked-open-heart tenderness back to my own dear ones.” - Jill Christman, author of If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays
“An exquisite account. Interspersed by gorgeous, haunting photographs, the book documents the everyday delightful minutiae of Hollars’s three young children and everyone’s search for memory and meaning in the face of death. One of the most tender, big-hearted accounts of grief and love I’ve ever read, Year of Plenty will joyfully, tearfully remind every reader of life’s bounty.” - Tessa Fontaine, author of The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts
“An exquisite account. Interspersed by gorgeous, haunting photographs, the book documents the everyday delightful minutiae of Hollars’s three young children and everyone’s search for memory and meaning in the face of death. One of the most tender, big-hearted accounts of grief and love I’ve ever read, Year of Plenty will joyfully, tearfully remind every reader of life’s bounty.” - Tessa Fontaine, author of The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts
B.J. Hollars is the author or editor of more than a dozen books. The founder and executive director of the Chippewa Valley Writers Guild, he is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780299347444 |
| ISBN 10 | 0299347443 |
| Title | Year of Plenty |
| Author | B J Hollars |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Year published | 2024-05-14 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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