A review by poachedeggs
String Too Short to Be Saved: Recollections of Summers on a New England Farm by Mimi Korach, Donald Hall

4.0

A profoundly moving paean to the value of nostalgia, this collection of essays on aspects of life on the writer's grandparents' New England farm had me thinking of a film I'd seen a while back - made by a young female Japanese filmmaker on her grandmother. I'd sat in the theatre with tears streaming down my face the entire movie (thank goodness it was a short one) and you know what - nothing had happened in the movie. Except, of course, you knew that the grandmother was now dead.