The Solace of Stones - Finding a Way through Wilderness (Paperback)

Everything changes when Julie Riddle's parents stumble across the wilderness survival guide How to Live in the Woods on Pennies a Day. In 1977, when Riddle is seven years old, she and her family-fed up with the challenges of city life-move to the foot of the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in northwestern Montana. For three years they live in the primitive basement of the log house they are building by hand in the harsh, remote Montana woods. Meanwhile, haunted by the repressed memory of childhood sexual abuse, Riddle struggles to come to terms with the dark shadows that plague her amid entrenched cultural and gender mores enforced by enduring myths of the West. As Riddle grapples with her own painful secrets, she discovers the world around her and its impact on people-the demands of living in a rural, mountain community dependent on boom-and-bust mining and logging industries, the health and environmental crises of the W. R. Grace asbestos contamination and EPA cleanup, and the healing beauty of the Montana wild. More than simply a memoir about family and place, The Solace of Stones explores Riddle's coming of age and the complexities of memory, loss, and identity borne by a family homesteading in the modern West.

General

Imprint:	Bison Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	American Lives
Release date:	February 2016
Authors:	Julie Riddle
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	300
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-7686-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > Child abuse Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > Sexual abuse Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8032-7686-9
Barcode:	9780803276864

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