Trace : Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

"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. As an educator and Earth historian, Lauret Savoy has tracked the continent's past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her lie largely eroded and lost. In prose 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"--