Miracle country : a memoir
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020.
Edition
First edition.
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306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO ATLEEWORK 2020
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BIO ATLEEWORK 2020
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Published
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"Miracle Country captures one family's spirit and losses in a harsh landscape that has been shaped and exploited over hundreds of years, and chronicles the author's journey as she realizes that there's nowhere else in the country, no matter how green and welcoming, that feels like home"--,Provided by publisher.
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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 family raised their children to thrive in this harsh landscape, forever at the mercy of wildfires, blizzards, and gale-force winds. Most of all, the Atleework children were raised on unconditional love and delight in the natural world. But it came at a price. When Kendra was six, her mother was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease, and she died when Kendra was sixteen. Her family fell apart, even as her father tried to keep them together. Kendra took flight from her bereft family, escaping to the enemy city of Los Angeles, and then Minneapolis, land of all trees, no deserts, no droughts, full lakes, water everywhere you look. But after years of avoiding the pain of her hometown, she realized that she had to go back, that the desert was the only place she could live. Like Wild, Miracle Country is a story of flight and return, bounty and emptiness, and the true meaning of home. But it also speaks to the ravages of climate change and its permanent destruction of the way of life in one particular town.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Atleework, K. (2020). Miracle country: a memoir (First edition.). Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Atleework, Kendra, 1989-. 2020. Miracle Country: A Memoir. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Atleework, Kendra, 1989-. Miracle Country: A Memoir Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Atleework, Kendra. Miracle Country: A Memoir First edition., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020.
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