The Deer Camp: A Memoir of a Father, a Family, and the Land That Healed Them

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Price
$28.00  $26.04
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
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Pages
304
Dimensions
6.4 X 1.0 X 9.2 inches | 1.2 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781635573480
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About the Author
Dean Kuipers has studied and written about the field of environmental politics and the human-nature relationship for decades. He is the author of Burning Rainbow Farm and Operation Bite Back. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Outside, The Atlantic, Men's Journal, Rolling Stone, and Playboy. He lives in Los Angeles
Reviews

"What makes The Deer Camp so memorable and engrossing is the wider environmental frame by which the author asks us to think about relationships. What brings the Kuiperses together, quite literally, is the acreage they return to year after year -- through which they engage with one another and the ground . . . The Deer Camp is a captivating exploration of what one can learn from the natural world, and our dependence on this knowledge for our own well-being." - Los Angeles Review of Books

"A soulful, elegantly written memoir of family strife and reconciliation." - Detroit News

"A frank, personal, and sometimes-painful account of Kuiper's fractured family . . . Lushly detailed and full of eco-devotion, this candid narrative has much to say about human beings bearing burdens, coping, and aiding one another." --Kirkus Reviews

"Honest and breathtakingly poetic." - Idaho Press Tribune

"Kuipers's gratifying narrative endearingly explores father-son relationships as well as the transformational power of nature." --Publishers Weekly

"A fascinating blend of the ecology of place and how one family, passionately devoted to nature but dysfunctional as human beings, came to a level of peace and maturity through their periodic trips to their deer camp in Western Michigan." - WSJM Radio

"[A] wonderful book . . . universal relateability is what makes reading [The Deer Camp] so fulfilling." - The Missoulian

"This is a resplendent celebration of childhood, an elegy for broken fathers, and a communion with immensities. Kuipers maps how a shattered family can wade into wilderness and be bound back together by water and sky. Reading this is like hearing animal songs at night. You can feel the pines in these pages, and know that a tree is growing where this book once stood." --Benjamin Busch, author of DUST TO DUST

"Kuipers has an extraordinary ear. With great acuity and insight he hears and interprets the voices of human family and ecological community. The forest and its people comes alive in his words. In beautiful prose, he uncovers and honors both the brokenness and the joy of our relationships with each other and the land." --David George Haskell, author of Burroughs Medalist THE SONG OF TREES and Pulitzer finalist THE FOREST UNSEEN

"The Deer Camp is an astonishing, impossible-to-put-down memoir that engages our largest conflicts-generational, psychological, global-with a rarified combination of rigor, grace, and levity. One of the most necessary books I've read in years." --Chris Dombrowski, author of BODY OF WATER

"In this poignant, honest memoir, Dean Kuipers guides readers through forests that feel both familiar and wild, in search of a family and a father he'd never known. The Deer Camp deftly navigates the deep and often complicated relationships between who we are and the places we love." --Caroline Van Hemert, author of THE SUN IS A COMPASS

"Wise, beautiful, honest writing about a landscape I love. - Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of MOTHERS TELL YOUR DAUGHTERS