And finally:
Long Ago People Who Lived Before Us Left a Little Bit of Themselves Behind
and
Many Decades Have Passed and the Human World Is Still Dangerous
Dear Early and Juniper, nothing I have written in these pages is as true as those last two titles. Your mom and I hope to leave something of ourselves behind for you, and we hope to leave it behind in a less dangerous world.
About the Author
WILEY CASH is the New York Times bestselling author of A Land More Kind Than Home, the acclaimed This Dark Road to Mercy, and most recently The Last Ballad. He has won the SIBA Book Award and the Conroy Legacy Award, was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and the Edgar Award for Best Novel, and has been nominated for many more. A native of North Carolina, he is the Alumni Author-in-Residence at the University of North Carolina Asheville. He lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, with his wife, the photographer Mallory Cash, and their two daughters.
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Digital Edition SEPTEMBER 2021 ISBN: 978-0-06-231310-2
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-231266-2
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