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Uplake : restless essays of coming and going / Ana Maria Spagna.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.P332 U65 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spagna, Ana Maria, author.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 231 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Ana Maria Spagna has stayed put, mostly, in a small mountain valley at the head of a glacier-carved lake. You're so lucky to live there, people say. She is lucky. But she is also restless. She takes road trips, flies to distant cities, fantasizes about other people's lives, and returns home to muse on rootedness, yearning, commitment, ambition, wonder, and love. Uplake's engaging essays celebrate the winter floods and summer fires, the roar of a chain-saw, open-water swims, an injured bear, even a lost wedding ring. Spagna reminds us to love what we have while still imagining what we want. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Slow Connection 7
- More Than Noise 17
- Winter Flood 27
- Confessional Roots 37
- So Many Rings 53
- Breathe 67
- The Fiddler on the Rock 79
- When We Talk about Courage 85
- Where You'd Rather Be 97
- How to Brine an Elk Steak 107
- Post-Strayed 117
- Away from Shore 129
- The Tree in the River 141
- The Injured Bear 151
- Flight Delay 163
- Together We Pause 175
- Here in the WUI 185
- Fire One, Fire Two 193
- Pierce 205.
- ISBN:
- 0295743220
- 9780295743226
- OCLC:
- 1011171813
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