THE EARTH IS ENOUGH: Growing Up in...

THE EARTH IS ENOUGH: Growing Up in a World of Flyfishing, Trout and Old Men by Harry Middleton (Pruett: $18.; 206 pp.). After a traumatic accident, the author was sent to live with his eccentric maternal grandfather and great-uncle on their Ozark farm. The old men were regarded as mad by their neighbors because they left most of their land to the wild turkeys, deer and trout. Middleton comments, “Their relationship to those ancient hills was hardly romantic or sentimental. Rather, it was practical, a daily experiment to see if they could take only what they needed in order to partake more fully of what they thrived on, the hills’ natural wildness.” His warmly elegiac memoir shows that in the modern world, madness may be saner than sanity.