Book of Days describes the daily lives of a French clan surnamed Lefief as its members progress from their founding in the year 1003 until the family name disappears from the historical record in 1975. Each chapter relates in words and images the daily life of a single member of that clan, one member on one day per century. These are the lives of people ignored by all the traditional history books. The stories are so dense with precise descriptions that readers imagine themselves walking alongside each chapter’s main character. The chapters are illustrated with so many images from the clan members’ own eras the result is an art history as much as a people history.
