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A poet's account of her journey toward adulthood follows her coming of age near the isolated logging camps of northern Idaho and considers how geography and faith served to shape her sense of identity. 30,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.
Amazon.com Review
In the mid-1960s, as mechanization and the forests' depletion drove many loggers into the cities,Kim Barnes's parents turned to fundamentalism to sustain their increasingly difficult life. The author struggled to live by this religion's exacting tenets, but her chilling descriptions of the harsh punishments meted out for lapses make us understand why she ultimately had to leave it behind. Yet she conveys understanding and love for the rigid yet secure world of her youth in this haunting memoir of faith and loss in the Idaho woods.
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