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Sawbill

A Search for Place
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Description

In Sawbill Jennifer Case watches her family suddenly exchange their rooted existence for a series of relocations that take them across the United States. In response Case struggles to "live in place" without a geographical home, a struggle that leads her to search for grounding in the now-dismantled fishing resort her grandparents ran in northeastern Minnesota. By chronicling her migratory adulthood alongside the similarly unpredictable history of Sawbill Lodge, this memoir offers a resonant meditation on home, family, environment, and the human desire for place in the inherently mobile twenty-first century.

Product Details

PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press
Publish DateMarch 01, 2018
Pages264
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780826359483
Dimensions7.9 X 5.4 X 0.9 inches | 0.7 pounds
BISAC Categories: Biography & Memoir

About the Author

Jennifer Case is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas and the assistant nonfiction editor at Terrain.org.

Reviews

"A beautifully written book, well organized and lyrical."--Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards
"Jennifer Case embarks on a personal journey, rediscovering the vast beauty of an almost pristine landscape as well as a complicated inner landscape as she surveys the boundaries of family bonds, love of the land, and our inexplicable, inextricable connections to place."--Jill McCabe Johnson, author of Diary of the One Swelling Sea

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