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<p>MacDonald writes that « home is a place in the heart. It is part actual and part invented, part remembered and part reconstructed, part learned and part inherited. » In <i>The Geography of Home</i>, MacDonald traces the rural Prince Edward Island that he grew up in from the late 1950s through the early 1970s, a landscape on the cusp of far-reaching change. </p>
<p>The depiction of an era offered here is a mixed-media portrait, combining prose and poetry, history and memory. Each poem takes as its touchstone a place, person, practice, or plot and is paired with a short reflection that unpacks facets of the culture being explored. MacDonald writes that while history attempts to trace changes over time, « memories are the little, coloured stones that we collect to assemble a mosaic of our lived past. »</p>