From the University of Oklahoma Press (January 2022):   Two overlapping memoirs, addressing fundamental questions:  How does individual consciousness develop?  What can music, art, and literature teach us about life’s experiences?  Is there a soul?

“With beauty and grace, Tracy Daugherty ‘scratches at the mysteries of self, mind, soul’ in this powerful work of nonfiction.  Part memoir, part intellectual investigation, part elegy, The Land and the Days rewards on so many levels.  Daugherty illuminates the forces of homesickness and yearning, how we want to think our way to a comprehension of death, the aching grip with which the past and the places and people we’ve loved hold us.  A Beautiful testament.”–Rilla Askew.