Can anyone recommend a book to me that is all about someone having a deep connection to the small area they are **from**. A sense of place and belonging.
Alan Garner's The Stone Book Quartet springs to mind.
Something that tries to express how someone is a product of the geology, soils, vegetation, food, climate, community and their ancestors. Similar to *terrioir* but for humans not wine.
I come from a small village in Somerset in England. I can trace my family tree back at least 300 years by just reading names on gravestones in the churchyard. Having an unusual surname helps there. My father and grandfather told me all about the village and its surroundings and how my family shaped the village as labourers and how the village shaped them in turn. I have not lived there for over 20 years but I dream about where I am from most nights. I am still homesick for my village.
If I can't find something I guess I will have to try and write something myself
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