5/22/2023 0 Comments Deep creek memoirThis is the book we need right now to remind us how to endure-passionately. Her stories of love, loss, and a life lived in relationship to land give us good reasons not to give up on ourselves or each other. Pam Houston has taken our heartache and woven it back into hope. 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.ĭeep Creek is a love letter to earth, animals, and the best of humanity. 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. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. 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. 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. About the Book How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us.
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