An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
Published by Harper & Row in 1987
Book Review by Bobby Matherne ©2002

[page 3] "When everything else has gone from my brain - the President's name, the state capitals, the neighborhoods where I lived, and then my own name and what it was on earth I sought, and at length the faces of my friends, and finally the faces of my family - when all this has dissolved, what will be left, I believe, is topology: the dreaming memory of land as it lay this way and that."

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