I Am a Stranger Here Myself - (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize) by Debra Gwartney (Paperback)
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- Part history, part memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West.
- About the Author: Debra Gwartney is the author of Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love and the coeditor of Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape.
- 296 Pages
- Literary Collections, Essays
- Series Name: River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize
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About the Book
Part history, part memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West.Book Synopsis
Part history, part memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West.Review Quotes
I Am A Stranger Here Myself . . . blends history and memoir in a fascinating rumination on western womanhood.--Sue Staats, Stories on Stage Sacramento
An absorbing, skillfully crafted, thoughtful and thought-provoking read.--Midwest Book Review
Award-winning author and writing instructor Debra Gwartney's new memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself, is a fascinating examination of her struggle to recognize and accept her identity and role as a woman in the American West.--The Bulletin, Bend, Oregon
Contains a sense of the modern-day ambiguous feeling of loving the West but seeing ourselves as interlopers.--Eugene Weekly
Gwartney is an empathetic writer. She resurrects Narcissa as a human being, enduring a flood of homesickness, fretting about middle-age weight gain. But Gwartney is unblinking in her assessment of the Whitmans' blunders and what they portended for the history of the American West.--Seattle Times
Gwartney narrates with such detail, richness in description, and thoughtful reflection.--Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Its strength lies in the author's honest appraisal of her early life as a lonely girl, a misfit who yearns to belong. Complicating her search for herself is a deep attachment to the landscape of home--the mountains, the rivers, the valleys, a place she knows 'about as well as the lines of my face.'--Inlander
The narratives braid into a meditation on belonging and identity, an exploration of the history that women played in settling the Northwest territories, and an elegy to the places that shape our selves.--The Rumpus
This prize-winning, beautifully crafted, deeply involving, and astute historical chronicle and anatomy of estrangement pulses with dramatic tales of hubris, risk, and bloodshed, repressed feelings and hard-tested bonds.--Booklist
About the Author
Debra Gwartney is the author of Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love and the coeditor of Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape. She teaches in Pacific University's MFA in Writing program and lives in Western Oregon.Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: .95 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 296
Genre: Literary Collections
Sub-Genre: Essays
Series Title: River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize
Publisher: Unm Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Debra Gwartney
Language: English
Street Date: March 15, 2019
TCIN: 89048310
UPC: 9780826360717
Item Number (DPCI): 247-14-5987
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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