Search for Lost Time

Peter Garcia writes a remembrance of growing up in Covington, Louisiana. He takes the reader on a memory walk through the neighborhood of his childhood and the rooms of his home. His transcendent prose carries the reader beyond the ordinary descriptions of a house and a town to the particular places of his youth. He successfully captures the Covington of the 1960s and the rambling wooden home that sheltered his family. His neighborhood comes alive again as he depicts its peculiar characters, colorful eccentrics, and the scads of children of large families who spent days outside—playing and yelling and running.