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On Homesickness
A Plea
Häftad, 2017
218 kr
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One day, Jesse Donaldson wakes up in Portland, Oregon, and asks his wife to uproot their life together and move to his native Kentucky. As he searches for the reason behind this sudden urge, Donaldson examines both the place where he was born and the life he’s building. The result is a hybrid—part …
Far Flung
Improvisations on National Parks, Driving to Russia, not Marrying a Ranger, the Language of Heartbreak, and Other Natural Disasters
Häftad, 2019
252 kr
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Cassandra Kircher was in her twenties when she was hired by the National Park Service, landing a life that allowed her to reinvent herself. For four years she collected entrance fees and worked in the dispatch office before being assigned as the first woman to patrol an isolated backcountry …
Lowest White Boy
Av Greg Bottoms
Häftad, 2019
233 kr
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One of the most famous political activists of all time, Emma Goldman was also infamous for her radical anarchist views and her “scandalous” personal life. In public, Goldman was a firebrand, confidently agitating for labor reform, anarchism, birth control, and women’s independence. But behind …
Painted Forest
Häftad, 2019
233 kr
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In this often-surprising book of essays, Krista Eastman explores the myths we make about who we are and where we’re from. The Painted Forest uncovers strange and little-known "home places" —not only the picturesque hills and valleys of the author's childhood in rural Wisconsin, but also tourist …
This Way Back
Häftad, 2020
278 kr
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Going back to her ancestral homeland, a Greek American girl discovers she is a lesbian in love with God, so her questions about home and belonging will not be easily answered.This Way Back dramatizes a childhood split between Queens, New York, and Cyprus, an island nation with a long colonial …
American Vaudeville
Häftad, 2021
226 kr
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A dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular culture—and with old, weird America.At the heart of American Vaudeville is one strange, unsettling fact: for nearly fifty years, from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, vaudeville was everywhere—then, suddenly, it was nowhere. …
Year Without Months
Häftad, 2022
233 kr
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This collection of fourteen essays by Charles Dodd White—praised by Silas House as "one of the best prose stylists of Appalachian literature"—explores the boundaries of family, loss, masculinity, and place. Contemplating the suicides of his father, uncle, and son, White meditates on what it means …
Clear Creek
Toward a Natural Philosophy
Av Erik Reece
Häftad, 2023
263 kr
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Acclaimed author Erik Reece spends a year beside a rural Kentucky stream, in close observation of the natural world’s cycles, revelations, and redemptions.A critic once wrote that Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon was about two things: Yugoslavia and everything else. Something similar might …
Permafrost Is an Archive
And Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands
Av Corinna Cook
Häftad, 2026
246 kr
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The Yukon Ice Patch Project reveals ancient lives. A road through the boreal forest reads like a map of climate upheaval. Those houses with broken doorknobs—a legacy of government regulation over Indigenous life. Corinna Cook, who was born white on Áak'w Kwáan Tlingit land in Juneau, Alaska, …
Curing Season
Artifacts
Häftad, 2022
261 kr
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“A lovely and rapturous excavation and examination of the past, a lesson in writing oneself into history when it doesn’t offer you a space.” —Jenny Boully, author of Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing LifeAfter spending four years of adolescence in suburban North Carolina, Kristine Langley …
