<p>MacDonald writes that \u00ab\u00a0home is a place in the heart. It is part actual and part invented, part remembered and part reconstructed, part learned and part inherited.\u00a0\u00bb 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>
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