{"product_id":"9780983934691","title":"An Archaeology of Yearning","description":"\u003cp\u003eDigging into vivid moments within the metaphor of archaeology, Bruce Mills's remarkable memoir maps the artifacts of life as a father of a boy with autism, and as a boy himself growing up in rural Iowa. \u003ci\u003eAn Archaeology of Yearning\u003c\/i\u003e is not ultimately about autism; instead it reaches into the world of human connection and illuminates how storytelling and an understanding of language keep that connection alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn some nights, I awake as if in a cave and think of the future. Mary and I will exist as memories: a quick glimpse of arms reaching toward another's shoulders or face, an image of a hand upon a book, the scent of our bodies after the sweat of sleep, the tone of our young and old voices calling our daughter or son from distant rooms or down a stair.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEventually I arrive on the image of my son, in some new home. No matter how much I have written or catalogued or kept in images, I know that the site of his life and mine will inevitably remain fragments and that only a visitor can bring us to life.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBruce Mills\u003c\/b\u003e has published scholarly books and articles on nineteenth-century American writings and co-edited a collection of essays by siblings of those on the autism spectrum. His creative nonfiction has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches in the English department at Kalamazoo College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Etruscan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024057221360,"sku":"9780983934691","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780983934691_p0.jpg?v=1763881199","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780983934691","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}