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Deep Creek : finding hope in the high country / Pam Houston.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393241020 :
- ISBN: 0393241025 :
- Physical Description: x, 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: Some kind of calling -- Buying hay -- Part one. Getting out. The tinnitus of truth telling -- Stacking wood -- Retethering -- Donkey chasing -- Part two. Digging in. The season of hunkering down -- Leonids -- Mother's Day storm -- Puppy -- A kind of quiet most people have forgotten -- Log chain -- The sound of horse teeth on hay -- Born in a barn -- Ranch archive -- First warm day -- Eating Phoebe -- Lambing -- Part three. Diary of a fire. Diary of a fire -- Carving rivers -- Part four. Elsewhere. Kindness -- Woolly Nelson -- Of spirit bears, humpbacks, narwhal, manatees, and mothers -- Almanac -- Part five. Deep Creek. Deep Creek. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pease Public Library | 814.5 HOUSTON
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34598000853542 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Summary:
How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us. On Pam Houston's 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, this beloved writer 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 linked essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston's profound meditations to love the damaged world and do what we can to help it.