Lost Without the River
A Memoir
ISBN-13: 9781631525315
Contributor(s): Barbara Hoffbeck Scoblic
Subject: Memoirs
Publisher Imprint: She Writes Press
Publication Date: 16-04-2019
Format: Paperback
Availability: Out of stock
£15.99
About the book
Lost Without the River is an elegantly wrought memoir of resilience, courage, and reinvention. A portrait of nature at its most beautiful and demanding, it is the story of a girl whose family struggled against Depression-era hardship and personal tragedy to carve out a small farm in rural South Dakota. The youngest of seven, Barbara wrestles against the expectations of her family, the strictures of the church, and the limits imposed by a male-dominated culture. Eager for adventure, she leaves the farm - first for the Peace Corps and ultimately for the unknown environs of Manhattan's Upper East Side - but she never truly escapes. Lost Without the River demonstrates the emotional power that even the smallest place can exert, and the gravitational pull that calls a person back home.