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Deep Creek : finding hope in the high country
Title:
Deep Creek : finding hope in the high country
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ISBN:
9780393241020
Publication Information:
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Physical Description:
303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
General Note:
Linked autobiographical essays.
Contents:
Part one. Getting out. The tinnitus of truth telling -- Retethering -- Part two. Digging in. The season of hunkering down -- Mother's Day storm -- A kind of quiet most people have forgotten -- The sound of horse teeth on hay -- Ranch archive -- Eating Phoebe -- Part three. Diary of a fire. Diary of a fire -- Part four. Elsewhere. Kindness -- Of spirit bears, humpbacks, narwhal, manatees, and mothers -- Part five. Deep Creek. Deep Creek.
Abstract:
On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston’s sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect. In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston’s most profound meditations yet on how "to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief…to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive."
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