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The Precarious Walk: Essays from Sand and Sky

The Precarious Walk: Essays from Sand and Sky

Barber, Phyllis

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ISBN10: 1948814595
ISBN13: 9781948814591
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Published: Jun 21 2022
Pages: 227
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.12 Depth: 7.87
Language: English

A 2022 Association of Mormon Letters Awards Finalist

Probing...thoughtful meditations on the needs of the soul.

--KIRKUS REVIEWS

In wide-ranging personal essays at the crossroads of place and perspective, Phyllis Barber challenges and celebrates her Great Basin roots.

From a backwoods church in Arkansas to the disappeared town of St. Thomas, buried beneath the waters of Lake Mead, award-winning essayist Phyllis Barber travels roads both internal and external, reflecting upon place and perspective, ambition and loss in The Precarious Walk. As a child growing up in the Mojave Desert, she witnesses the massive power of the Hoover Dam and a fiery rip in the sky from the Nevada Test Site. As an adult, Barber searches for meaning through music, movement, and human connection, examining her Mormon upbringing, the profound ways people and landscape impact one another, and the sudden loss of her first child with open-ended honesty.

Barber's distinctly feminine voice expands upon the literature of the West alongside Ellen Meloy and Terry Tempest Williams, with seeking and questioning at the heart of this deeply felt collection. In the spirit of Flannery O'Connor and David James Duncan, Barber adds a deeply generous and--true to her high-desert roots--down-to-earth voice to the illumination of human experience.

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