Each day leading up to the March 11 announcement of the 2009 NBCC award winners, Critical Mass highlights one of the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Karen Long discusses fiction finalist Tracy Kidder's Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness (Random House)
Two centuries after the 1807 publication of “Ode: Intimation of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood,” Tracy Kidder picked up four words from William Wordsworth to serve as the title for his book.
Strength in What Remains gathers in potency and aptness as it follows the
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