The dream of a broken field is to bear crops. The dream of a broken history is to create meaning, to find among the fragments a way to tell the story of a life. It is this dream that Diane Glancy pursues here, through essays on writing, faith, family, teaching, and retirement. Blending a poet s vision and a storyteller s voice, the result is at once a virtuoso work of creative nonfiction and an exploration of that genre s outer limits by one of the foremost voices in Native American literature today.Uneasily and yet firmly balanced between European and Native cultures English and German on...