Confessions of Boyhood

A sequence of memoir essays and lyrical sketches recounts childhood in a small New England town, mixing clear-eyed description of landscape and community with personal reminiscence. The narrator recalls household and neighborly life, religious customs and holidays, local characters, and the rhythms of rural work; chapters trace early apprenticeships, mill and shop labor, schooling, and the ache of homesickness. Interwoven poems and meditative pieces on shadow and echo punctuate the recollections, giving the book a blended structure of anecdote, cultural detail, and reflective fragment that evokes both everyday practice and the imaginative life of youth.