Description
Call this a memoir if you like, but we prefer nature writing, and Odden does it at the highest level--best served with her pumpkin pie (recipe included).--Matt Sutherland, Foreword Reviews
In Mostly Water, essays form a linked memoir that explores the American outback from eastern Oregon horse trails to the arctic and subarctic river towns of Alaska. In these landscapes, human dwellers are entwined in histories as loopy as northern rivers. Odden invites the reader to a vivid patchwork of characters and seldom-seen places, with a soundtrack from fiddle dances and a menu "half potlatch and half potluck." Events of the churning twenty-first century rise like the sea in these stories--but so do music and love and hope in the precious otherness of nature.
Author: Mary Odden
Publisher: Boreal Books
Published: 06/02/2020
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781597099196
ISBN10: 1597099198
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures