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Weary from the journalistic treadmill of ""going from one assignment to the next, like an itinerant fieldworker moving to his harvests"" and healing from a divorce, Douglas Bauer decided it was time to return to his hometown. Back in Prairie City, he helped on his father's farm, scooped grains at the Co-op, and tended bar at the Cardinal. The resultant memoir is a classic picture of an adult experiencing one's childhood roots as a grown-up and testing whether one can ever truly go home again.

Bauer, Douglas. --- Prairie City (Iowa) --- Prairie City, Iowa --- Social life and customs.

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What is life about but the continuous posing of the questions: what happens next, and what do we make of it when it arrives? In these highly evocative personal essays, Douglas Bauer weaves together the stories of his own and his parents' lives, the meals they ate, the work and rewards and regrets that defined them, and the inevitable betrayal by their bodies as they aged. In these clear-eyed, wry and graceful essays, Douglas Bauer presents with candor and humor the dual calendars of his own mortality and that of his aging parents, evoking the regrets and affirmations inherent in being human.

Meaning (Philosophy) --- Life. --- Parent and adult child. --- Aging parents. --- American essays --- Adult child and parent --- Adult children and parents --- Parent-adult child relations --- Parents and adult children --- Parent and child --- Adult children living with parents --- Sandwich generation --- Elderly parents --- Parents, Aged --- Parents --- Life --- Philosophy --- Semantics (Philosophy)