![]() ![]() 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. My publisher asked if I could think about a book-length adventure. ![]() Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the Earth, the ranch most of all.Īlongside 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. Former Parkite Pam Houston says her memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, which is this year’s One Book, One Community selection, wasn’t supposed to be about living on a 120-acre ranch in Colorado, her abusive childhood or her bad choices in men. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures.ĭrop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. ![]() "How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us." 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. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |