Mark Doty's prose has been hailed as "tempered and tough, sorrowing and serene" (The New York Times Book Review) and "achingly beautiful" (The Boston Globe). In Still Life with Oysters and Lemon he offers a stunning exploration of our attachment to ordinary things-how we invest objects with human store, and why.

One single moment changes everythingIn one breath, you can have it allA split-second later, it can all disappearVanished foreverThat was meI had it allThen in a cruel twist of fate, it was taken from meA beautiful life gone in a flashBut he was thereHe was there to pick me up when I fellTo protect meMy savior. My rock. He was just a strangerJust a selfless stranger with a face I'll never forgetCan't forgetWon't forgetAnd like everything else, he just disappearedAs if he never existed I have to find himI need to find him He has to know that he saved meHe has to know that in that one fleeting moment, he was all I could see

Lexi Stone disappeared and has been missing for seven years. She is still wearing the same clothes from the day she vanished, while running into her husband, children and his new girlfriend. Lexi is in complete shock when she stumbles upon them. She has no memory of her time away. Lexi begins to have ongoing flashbacks of her time when she was missing as she struggles to put all the pieces back together. She finds comfort in another man while grieving the loss of her husband. Meanwhile, a mysterious man from her past comes back to haunt her and claim her as his. He will not give up until he has her. She lost her husband to another women, will she ever be able to find love again? Who says we can't have two loves in a lifetime?

Essay on human culture as the physical and mental constructs created by people to cope with their environment while nature is that part of people's surroundings least touched by them. Human culture is expressed in cities.