Return To Fall River

Thomas McGuane relives his boyhood visits with his Irish Catholic family in the Massachusetts town.

"I choose to travel here, to this version of America in the nineteen-fifties, because there were half as many of us in the country then as there are now, because it was a time when every town had, as Eudora Welty once said, an individual face, like that of a person."

Full Story: The New Yorker