They were a liverwurst sandwich, a blackened steak and an eggplant pizza.

Here, the most mundane gestures of an average Dubus day, like making a liverwurst sandwich for one of his daughters, become subjects of emotionally charged musings.

Crooked white letters on black marquees above announced that a liverwurst sandwich went for $3.75, two eggs any style for $2.95, and a "chburger deluxe" for $6.

One piece portrays a man whose great-great-grandfather made a liverwurst sandwich for the surgeon and medical researcher Walter Reed.

Down Route 202, he pulled over on the shoulder, ate a liverwurst sandwich he'd prepared earlier that day, then drove to an industrial park they were building south of Downingtown.

Once they grounded on a dazzling stretch of broken coral, and took time off for liverwurst sandwiches and glasses of beer.

When Kaye went for his first written pilot's exam, he brought a liverwurst sandwich in case he was there for hours.

Accordingly, he had just finished a liverwurst sandwich and a bottle of root beer, and tidied up after himself in Aletha's kitchen.

Creating a good liverwurst sandwich was a modest feat but a satisfying one nevertheless.

He took out one of the liverwurst sandwiches Katherine Hartley had packed for him.