This book examines the daily rhythms, fulfillments, and frustrations of a way of life in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts. The author, a recipient of a 1994 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, returns home to work with her aging parents and unhappy brother. She respects her father's love of the land and the perseverance which is built into his vocation of farming. "I love the patience it takes, the repetition, the deliberate pace, everything to be handled just so." Here and Nowhere Else salutes the power of place and the way it can win one over.