Description
When she isn't eavesdropping on family gossip or gazing at taxidermy squirrels in smoky dives, Courtney Kersten charts the uncertainty of her midwestern homeland by looking to the stars and planets. As a teen she had plunged deep into the worlds of signs, symbols, and prophecy. But as her mother--her traveling companion into these spheres--lies dying, Kersten must learn to navigate without the person who always lit the way. Their last journey together, to swim in a Wisconsin lake, is a bittersweet, darkly comic, poignant climax to this transformative memoir.
Author: Courtney Kersten
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 11/09/2007
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780299317003
ISBN10: 0299317005
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Healing | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
Author: Courtney Kersten
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 11/09/2007
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780299317003
ISBN10: 0299317005
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Healing | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
About the Author
Courtney Kersten is an essayist and scholar. A native of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, she teaches creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her essays can be found in River Teeth, Hotel Amerika, DIAGRAM, The Sonora Review, Black Warrior Review, and The Master's Review.