The Reporter Gene

Spanning three decades of life experience The Reporter Gene examines childhood parenthood loss and the resonance of place. Readers familiar with the Atlantic states--its cities and deepest rural areas--will recognize the landscape of these works. Nessa Burns Reifsnyder daughter of a poet and a jazz musician inherited the reporter gene of the title: an unsparing straightforward storytelling instinct with flashes of emotional verve befitting an improviser.