Miracle country : a memoir
by
 
Atleework, Kendra, 1989- author.

Title
Miracle country : a memoir

Author
Atleework, Kendra, 1989- author.

Summary
Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero. Kendra’s parents taught their children to thrive in this beautiful, if harsh, landscape, prone to wildfires, blizzards, and gale-force winds. Above all, they were raised on unconditional love and delight in the natural world. After Kendra’s mother died of a rare autoimmune disease when Kendra was just sixteen, however, her once beloved desert world came to feel empty and hostile, as climate change, drought, and wildfires intensified. The Atleework family fell apart, even as her father tried to keep them together. Kendra escaped to Los Angeles, and then Minneapolis, land of tall trees, full lakes, water everywhere you look. But after years of avoiding her troubled hometown, she realized that she needed to come to terms with its past and present and had to go back. Miracle Country is a moving and unforgettable memoir of flight and return, emptiness and bounty, the realities of a harsh and changing climate, and the true meaning of home. For readers of Cheryl Strayed, Terry Tempest Williams, and Rebecca Solnit, this is a breathtaking debut by a remarkable writer.-- Amazon.com.

General Note
"Portion on this work first appeared in Territory, Hayden's Ferry Review, the Pinch Journal, and Best American Essays 2015"--Title page verso.

Edition
First edition.

Physical Description
306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Genre
Autobiographies.
 
Personal narratives.

Personal Subject
Atleework, Kendra, 1989-

Subject Term
Women -- California, Southern -- Biography.
 
Coming of age.

Geographic Term
California, Southern -- Description and travel.
 
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Biography.
 
California -- Biography.

Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,

Publication Date
2020

ISBN
9781616209988

Publication Information
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020.

Call Number
928 ATLEEWORK


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