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Archaeology of Yearning, Paperback by Mills, Bruce, ISBN 098393469X, ISBN-13 9780983934691, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US<div><p>Digging into vivid moments within the metaphor of archaeology, Bruce Mills's remarkable memoir maps the artifacts of life as a father of a boy with autism, and as a boy himself growing up in rural Iowa. <i>An Archaeology of Yearning</i> is not ultimately about autism; instead it reaches into the world of human connection and illuminates how storytelling and an understanding of language keep that connection alive.</p><p><i>On some nights, I awake as if in a cave and think of the future. Mary and I will exist as memories: a quick glimpse of arms reaching toward another's shoulders or face, an image of a hand upon a book, the scent of our bodies after the sweat of sleep, the tone of our young and old voices calling our daughter or son from distant rooms or down a stair.</i></p><p><i>Eventually I arrive on the image of my son, in some new home. No matter how much I have written or catalogued or kept in images, I know that the site of his life and mine will inevitably remain fragments and that only a visitor can bring us to life.</i></p><p><b>Bruce Mills</b> has published scholarly books and articles on nineteenth-century American writings and co-edited a collection of essays by siblings of those on the autism spectrum. His creative nonfiction has appeared in the <i>Georgia Review</i> and <i>New England Review</i>. He teaches in the English department at Kalamazoo College.</p><br></div>