Falling into Place An Intimate Geography of Home |
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Author:
| Reid, Catherine |
ISBN: | 978-0-8070-6118-3 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2015 |
Publisher: | Beacon Press
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Imprint: | Beacon Press |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $15.00 |
Book Description:
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"It's not easy," Catherine Reid writes, "to love a person and a place in equal measure." Love she does, however, as described in these intimate, lyric essays about the land and people around her. With the inside perspective of a native daughter combined with her outsider status as a lesbian, Reid explores such paradoxes as those that arise from harnessing wild rivers or legalizing same-sex marriage. Her fascination with natural phenomena--whether bird hibernation, the arrival of...
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"It's not easy," Catherine Reid writes, "to love a person and a place in equal measure." Love she does, however, as described in these intimate, lyric essays about the land and people around her. With the inside perspective of a native daughter combined with her outsider status as a lesbian, Reid explores such paradoxes as those that arise from harnessing wild rivers or legalizing same-sex marriage. Her fascination with natural phenomena--whether bird hibernation, the arrival of fishers in suburbia, or the explosion of amphibious life in the wet weeks of spring--is captured in writing that pays as much attention to the sounds of a sentence as to the rhythms of the landscapes she wanders. Ultimately, however, Reid finds herself having to choose between her lover and her home place.