Since its first publication in 2005, Bruce Coffin’s beautifully written account of growing up in Woodstock, Vermont in the 1950s, The Long Light of Those Days, has become a New England classic.

Now Bruce Coffin is back with Among Familiar Shadows, a more intimate evocation of the people who made the world he grew up in. His portraits of these people—-including his own family—-are loving but unsentimental. Traveling back, through time and memory to stand among their familiar shadows, he shows us how they lived, how they talked, how they raised their children—-and how they dealt with tragedy.