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Header image: Cover of The First 649 Days by Eric LeMay, which shows a dark photo of a child running through a field

The Kent State University Press
256 pages
April 14, 2026

How do we wrestle with unimaginable loss? How does love open us to new worlds and even new versions of ourselves? In The First 649 Days, Eric LeMay explores the everyday moments and momentous events that make and unmake our lives, from the birth of a child to mass death in a global pandemic to finding a home and comfort among the fields and forests of Appalachian Ohio.

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