What Happens Next? : Matters of Life and Death.
What is life about but the continuous posing of the questions: what happens next, and what do we make of it when it arrives? In these highly evocative personal essays, Douglas Bauer weaves together the stories of his own and his parents' lives, the meals they ate, the work and rewards and regre...
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| Series: | Iowa and the Midwest experience.
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