That Distant Land

Originally published in 2005, <i>That Distant Land</i> brings together twenty–three stories from the Port William Membership. Arranged in their fictional chronology, the book is not an anthology so much as it is a coherent temporal mapping of this landscape over time, revealing Berry’s mastery of decades of the life lived alongside this clutch of interrelated characters bound by affection and followed over generations.<br><br>This volume combines the stories found in <i>The Wild Birds</i> (1985), <i>Fidelity</i> (1992), and <i>Watch with Me</i> (1994), together with a map and a charting of the complex and interlocking genealogies. Originally published in 2005, <i>That Distant Land</i> brings together twenty–three stories from the Port William Membership. Arranged in their fictional chronology, the book is not an anthology so much as it is a coherent temporal mapping of this landscape over time, revealing Berry’s mastery of decades of the life lived alongside this clutch of interrelated characters bound by affection and followed over generations.<br><br>This volume combines the stories found in <i>The Wild Birds</i> (1985), <i>Fidelity</i> (1992), and <i>Watch with Me</i> (1994), together with a map and a charting of the complex and interlocking genealogies.