English | April 14, 2014 | ASIN: B00JOR01XQ | M4B@64 kbps | 5 hrs 33 mins | 158 MB
Narrator: Chris Henry Coffey | Genre: Nonfiction/Memoirs
In The Distancers, seven generations worth of joy and heartache is artfully forged into a family portrait that is at once universally American yet singularly Lee Sandlin's own. From the nineteenth century German immigrants who settled on a small Midwestern farm, to the proud and upright aunts and uncles with whom Sandlin spent the summers of his youth, a whole history of quiet ambition and stoic pride – of successes, failures, and above all endurance – leaps off the page in a sweeping American family epic.
Touching on The Great Depression, WWII, and the American immigrant experience, the uses of proper manners, The Distancers is a beautiful and stark Midwestern drama, about a time and place long since vanished, where the author learned the value of family and the art of keeping one's distance.