Winter Solstice: An EssayBOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER BOSTON. COM BOOKCLUB SELECTION A celebration and meditation on the season for drinking hot chocolate, spotting a wreath on a neighbors door, experiencing the change in light of shorter days. All aspects of Winter, from the meteorological to the mythological, are captured in this masterful essay, told in wise and luminous prose that pushes back the dark. Winter begins with the shortest day of the

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whose eye for observation is matched only by her formal inventiveness and philosophical interrogations of the relationship between journalist and subject

which continues Marcia Douglas’ “speculative ancestral project” (The Whiting Foundation) begun with The Marvellous Equations of the Dread

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