Stay Here with Me

Robert Olmstead has peopled his fiction with the rough-hewn farmers, loggers and hired hands of rural New England mountain towns where getting drunk, getting into fights, and getting thrown out of bars are the normal rites of passage. In STAY HERE WITH ME he draws from his own experience as he journeys back to his youth on his grandfather's dairy farm in New Hampshire to confront the ghosts that continue to afflict him. He lays bare the acute pain of his father's alcoholism and the shattering decline of his grandfather. He traces the flowering of his love for a woman. And throughout, there is the land that his family has worked for six generations.