Days Like Smoke av Jon Hassler

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<P><B>The memoir of a small-town childhood by one of Minnesota’s favorite writers, now published for the first time</B><BR/><BR/><I>I’ve always thought of the Red Owl Grocery Store in Plainview, Minnesota, as my training ground, for it was there that I acquired the latent qualities necessary to the novelist: from my dear German father, endurance, patience, resilience, and sound working habits, and from my dear Irish mother, the fun of picking individuals out of a crowd and the joy of finding the precise words to describe them. No one took more nourishment away from that store than I.</I></P><P>Beloved Minnesota novelist Jon Hassler, who chronicled small-town Midwestern life in such popular novels as Staggerford, A Green Journey, and North of Hope, left the manuscript for one important story unfinished when he died: his own. <I>Days Like Smoke: A Minnesota Boyhood</I> is Hassler’s previously unpublished memoir of his youth in rural Minnesota during the 1930s and 40s,