The solace of stones : finding a way through wilderness / by Julie Riddle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riddle, Julie, author.

Series:

American lives.

American lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pioneers--Montana--Butte--Biography.

Pioneers.

Frontier and pioneer life--Montana--Butte.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Sexually abused children--Montana--Butte.

Sexually abused children.

Child sexual abuse--Montana--Butte.

Child sexual abuse.

Recovered memory--Case studies.

Recovered memory.

English teachers--Japan--Biography.

English teachers.

Butte (Mont.)--Biography.

Butte (Mont.).

Riddle, Julie.

Riddle, Julie--Childhood and youth.

Riddle, Julie--Travel--Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Everything changes when Julie Riddle's parents stumble across the wilderness survival guide How to Live in the Woods on Pennies a Day. In 1977, when Riddle is seven years old, she and her family-fed up with the challenges of city life-move to the foot of the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in northwestern Montana. For three years they live in the primitive basement of the log house they are building by hand in the harsh, remote Montana woods. Meanwhile, haunted by the repressed memory of childhood sexual abuse, Riddle struggles to come to terms with the dark shadows that plague her amid entrenched cultural and gender mores enforced by enduring myths of the West. As Riddle grapples with her own painful secrets, she discovers the world around her and its impact on people-the demands of living in a rural, mountain community dependent on boom-and-bust mining and logging industries, the health and environmental crises of the W. R. Grace asbestos contamination and EPA cleanup, and the healing beauty of the Montana wild. More than simply a memoir about family and place, The Solace of Stones explores Riddle's coming of age and the complexities of memory, loss, and identity borne by a family homesteading in the modern West.

Contents:

Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; List of Illustrations; Prologue; Tucson; Lighting Out; That Summer; How to Build a Log House; Splitting the Difference; Shadow Animals; Best Wishes for Your Future; Frontier Girl; Escape; Japan; Unraveling; The Solace of Stones; Broken Body; Shifting Currents; The Gift; Acknowledgments; Selected Bibliography; About Julie Riddle; Series List

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780803288348

0803288344

OCLC:

945135614