"[Kathleen Jamie's] essays guide you softly along coastlines of
varying continents, exploring caves, and pondering ice ages until
the narrator stumbles over - not a rock on the trail, but
mortality, maybe the earth's, maybe our own, pointing to new paths
forward through the forest." -Delia Owens, author of Where the
Crawdads Sing, "By the Book" in The New York Times Book Review. An
immersive exploration of time and place in a shrinking world, from
the award-winning author of Sightlines. In this remarkable blend of
memoir, cultural history, and travelogue, poet and author Kathleen
Jamie touches points on a timeline spanning millennia, and
considers what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. From
the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village in Alaska to its
hunter-gatherer past to the shifting sand dunes revealing the
impressiely preserved homes of neolithic farmers in Scotland, Jamie
explores how the changing natural world can alter our sense of
time. Most movingly, she considers, as her father dies and her
children leave home, the surfacing of an older, less tethered sense
of herself. In precise, luminous prose, Surfacing offers a profound
sense of time passing and an antidote to all that is instant,
ephemeral, unrooted.
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