In the mid-1960s, as mechanization and the forests" depletiondrove many loggers into the cities,Kim Barnes"s parents turned tofundamentalism to sustain their increasingly difficult life. Theauthor struggled to live by this religion"s exacting tenets, buther chilling descriptions of the harsh punishments meted out forlapses make us understand why she ultimately had to leave itbehind. Yet she conveys understanding and love for the rigid yetsecure world of her youth in this haunting memoir of faith and lossin the Idaho woods.
Winner of the 1995 PEN/Jerard Fund Award, In the Wildernessis poet Kim Barnes" account of her journey toward adulthood, setagainst an interior landscape as awesome, as wondrous, and asfraught with hidden peril as the isolated northern Idaho loggingcamps where she grew up.
Kim Barnes is the author of the novelFinding Caruso and two memoirs, In the Wilderness: Comingof Age in Unknown Country—a finalist for the 1997 PulitzerPrize—and Hungry for the World. She is coeditor with MaryClearman Blew of Circle of Women: An Anthology of ContemporaryWestern Women Writers, and with Claire Davis of KissTomorrow Hello: Notes from the Midlife Underground by Twenty-FiveWomen Over Forty. Her essays, stories, and poems have appearedin a number of journals and anthologies, including The GeorgiaReview, Shenandoah, MORE magazine, and the Pushcart PrizeAnthology. She teaches writing at the University of Idaho and liveswith her husband, the poet Robert Wrigley, on Moscow Mountain.
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