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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Gayla MartyPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9780816667093ISBN 10: 0816667098 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 15 March 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Prologue: As the Leaves Fell I. Attachment 1. Light Elm 2. Things of the Spirit Maple 3. Two Barns Oak 4. The Word Birch 5. Houses Spruce II. Separation 6. Husbands and Wives Apple 7. Memory of Trees Fig 8. The Way Out Pine 9. Wake Cedar Epilogue: What Remains Acknowledgments Notes Publication HistoryReviewsMemory of Trees is the most comforting kind of farm memoir--sad, yes, but written with an open heart to the rural trinity: farm, family, and faith. . . . This one is for the smart little girls who adored their hardworking, faith-driven, farming fathers. It is for women displaced from home, who eventually integrate into the rhythms of city life, and then watch as claims to home disappear with a few shaky signatures. That is not comforting--that is bone-achingly sad, turning over some real cultural grief--but Marty tells it with love. That is its comfort. -- Star Tribune <br> Memoirs can be cool in tone when the author seems to step back and view his or her life dispassionately. Not so with Marty, and that's what makes this story so affecting. There have been many books written by Minnesotans about the loss of their farms, but Marty does not hide her emotions. When the family has to sell, her grief is like a howl. . . . Her evocation of the day everything is auctioned, including harnesses that had been in the family for two generations, is so painful to read you can feel Marty's heartbreak. -- Pioneer Press <br> The changing face of American agriculture is a story of land, but it is also a story of families, and this wise and lyrical memoir of one daughter's story of a family farm is a portrait worth more than a thousand facts. -- Rain Taxi Review of Books <br> Memory of Trees is the most comforting kind of farm memoir--sad, yes, but written with an open heart to the rural trinity: farm, family, and faith. . . . This one is for the smart little girls who adored their hardworking, faith-driven, farming fathers. It is for women displaced from home, who eventually integrate into the rhythms of city life, and then watch as claims to home disappear with a few shaky signatures. That is not comforting--that is bone-achingly sad, turning over some real cultural grief--but Marty tells it with love. That is its comfort. --Star Tribune Memoirs can be cool in tone when the author seems to step back and view his or her life dispassionately. Not so with Marty, and that's what makes this story so affecting. There have been many books written by Minnesotans about the loss of their farms, but Marty does not hide her emotions. When the family has to sell, her grief is like a howl. . . . Her evocation of the day everything is auctioned, including harnesses that had been in the family for two generations, is so painful to read you can feel Marty's heartbreak. --Pioneer Press The changing face of American agriculture is a story of land, but it is also a story of families, and this wise and lyrical memoir of one daughter's story of a family farm is a portrait worth more than a thousand facts. --Rain Taxi Review of Books Memory of Trees is the most comforting kind of farm memoir--sad, yes, but written with an open heart to the rural trinity: farm, family, and faith. . . . This one is for the smart little girls who adored their hardworking, faith-driven, farming fathers. It is for women displaced from home, who eventually integrate into the rhythms of city life, and then watch as claims to home disappear with a few shaky signatures. That is not comforting--that is bone-achingly sad, turning over some real cultural grief--but Marty tells it with love. That is its comfort. --Star Tribune <p/> Memoirs can be cool in tone when the author seems to step back and view his or her life dispassionately. Not so with Marty, and that's what makes this story so affecting. There have been many books written by Minnesotans about the loss of their farms, but Marty does not hide her emotions. When the family has to sell, her grief is like a howl. . . . Her evocation of the day everything is auctioned, including harnesses that had been in the family for two generations, is so painful to read you can feel Marty's heartbreak. --Pioneer Press <p/> The changing face of American agriculture is a story of land, but it is also a story of families, and this wise and lyrical memoir of one daughter's story of a family farm is a portrait worth more than a thousand facts. --Rain Taxi Review of Books Author InformationGayla Marty is a writer and editor in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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