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In this collection, "Richard Ford enacts a ... meditation on memory, love and loss. 'Displaced' returns us to a young man's Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to solace the narrator's sorrow after his father's death. 'Driving Up' follows an American woman's late-in-life journey to Canada to bid good-bye to a lost love now facing the end of this life. 'The Run of Yourself,' a novella, sees a New Orleans lawyer navigating the difficulties of living beyond his Irish wife's death. And 'Nothing to Declare' follows a man and a woman's chance re-meeting in the New Orleans French Quarter, after twenty years, and their discovery of what's left of love for them"--