With a New Preface by the Author Through personal journeys and
historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how
America's still unfolding history and ideas of "race" have marked
its people and the land. Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented
memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and
loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl
was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth
historian, she has tracked the continent's past from the relics of
deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her-paths of free and
enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to
this land-lie largely eroded and lost. A provocative and powerful
mosaic that ranges across a continent and across time, from twisted
terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina
plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from "Indian
Territory" and the U.S.-Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace
grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often
unvoiced presence of the past. In distinctive and illuminating
prose that is attentive to the rhythms of language and landscapes,
she weaves together human stories of migration, silence, and
displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted
mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons. Gifted with this
manifold vision, and graced by a scientific and lyrical diligence,
she delves through fragmented histories-natural, personal,
cultural-to find shadowy outlines of other stories of place in
America. "Every landscape is an accumulation," reads one epigraph.
"Life must be lived amidst that which was made before."
Courageously and masterfully, Lauret Savoy does so in this
beautiful book: she lives there, making sense of this land and its
troubled past, reconciling what it means to inhabit terrains of
memory-and to be one.
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