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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Distancers Subtitle: An American Memoir Author: Lee Sandlin Narrator: Chris Henry Coffey Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins Language: English Release date: 04-14-14 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In The Distancers, seven generations worth of joy and heartache is artfully forged into a family portrait that is at once universally American yet singularly Lee Sandlin's own. From the nineteenth century German immigrants who settled on a small Midwestern farm, to the proud and upright aunts and uncles with whom Sandlin spent the summers of his youth, a whole history of quiet ambition and stoic pride - of successes, failures, and above all endurance - leaps off the page in a sweeping American family epic. Touching on The Great Depression, WWII, and the American immigrant experience, the uses of proper manners, The Dista