Book - In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country
Poet Kim Barnes grew up in northern Idaho, in the isolated camps where her father worked as a logger and her mother made a modest but comfortable home for her husband and two children. Their lives were short on material wealth, but long on the riches of family and friendship, and the great sheltering power of the wilderness.
Author: Kim Barnes
ISBN: 9780385478212
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday
Date: 1992
Excerpt:
Those nights as a child when I lay in my grandmother's bed, comforted by her soft presence, I felt little nostalgia for the woods, or even Luke. Instead, I thought of the faces of young men I had seen on Nan's TV: Bobby Sherman, David Cassidy, others with pearly grins and hair brushing their shoulders. Nan gave me money to buy the teen magazines that held their pictures, then gave me half the wall space in her room to hang the glossy centerfolds."
