"As both theory and criticism [Wilson's] achievement in this book is substantial and important"-Alexander Sesonske, Film Quarterly

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Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a lyrical meditation on family, place, and inheritance Names for Light traverses time and memory to weigh three g

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