Stop Here, This is the Place [Hardcover]

Winky Lewis and Susan Conley, a photographer and a writer in Portland, tried an experiment. At the start of every week for a year, Winky sent Susan a photograph: of their children, of the street where they live as neighbors, and of other green places in Maine. By the end of each week Susan sent a tiny story back that spoke to the photograph. Stop Here, This Is The Place tells the story of a year in which children's arms and legs get longer, and traces of babyhood fade--a year that feels interminable to a ten-year-old looking forward and fleeting to that ten-year-olds mother, who can always stop here, go back, and remember.Winky Lewis and Susan Conley, a photographer and a writer in Portland, tried an experiment. At the start of every week for a year, Winky sent Susan a photograph: of their children, of the street where they live as neighbors, and of other green places in Maine. By the end of that week Susan sent a tiny story back that talked to the photograph. Stop Here, This Is The Place tells the story of a year in which children's arms and legs get longer, and traces of babyhood fade--a year that feels interminable to a ten-year-old looking forward and fleeting to that ten-year-olds mother, who can always stop here, go back and remember. This delightfully evocative gift book is a reminder to stop and enjoy the precious time we have with our kids while we have them. Through Susan's recollections of moments from her childhood and the ongoing lives of her children, were reminded of our own childhoods, and of the necessity to stop and pay attention, to hold on.Susan Conley, a native Mainer, is the author of The Foremost Good Fortune (Knopf 2011), an OprahMagazine Top Ten pick and winner of the Maine Literary Award for Memoir, and the novel Paris Wasthe Place, a People Magazine Top Pick, Elle Magazine Readers Prize selection and Amazon BigBooks for Fall selection. Her books have been excerpted in The New York Times Magazine and the DailyBeast. She is the colĂ+