The Distancers, Lee Sandlin's newest, is an austerely beautiful remembrance of his southern Illinois family.
by Sam Worley
Lee Sandlin's new book will read familiar to those of us who grew up in the company of a reliable midwestern archetype: the taciturn, emotionally remote grandparent. Here there's a quartet not of Sandlin's actual grandparents but his great uncles and aunts, two of each, and they live together in a house in Edwardsville, Illinois, where Sandlin (Wicked River, Storm Kings) visits them as a child.…[ Read more ]