The Long Field : Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir Style:Hardcover As skilled a philosopher as

As skilled a philosopher as she is a poet

and these two have been fast friends since elementary school

But can two women with so much passion—for what once was and what could be—agree to disagree long enough to fall in love

Kiran finds himself perpetually on the outside—as an Indian American torn between two cultures and as a gay man in a homophobic society

The Long Field : Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir Style:Hardcover As skilled a philosopher asBy Pamela Petro For readers of H Is for Hawk, an intimate memoir of belonging and loss and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of Wales Hiraeth is a Welsh word that's famously hard to translate. Literally, it can mean "long field" but generally translates into English, inadequately, as "homesickness." At heart, hiraeth suggests something like a bone deep longing for an irretrievable place, person, or timean acute awareness of