As a perennial outsider, the speaker traverses through loneliness, consumerism, and silence, until he sees his personal history as communal. It's a quest to honor the complexity of the mind and heart over time - a quest for justice, love, and compassion. Cultural forces and conventions - repression, prejudice, power regimes - frame feelings of powerlessness, and are explored deeply in this collection. | Country Living by Ira Sadoff, Paperback | Indigo Chapters