Mostly Water
Reflections Rural and North
Mary Odden
- 247 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Mostly Water
Reflections Rural and North
Mary Odden
About This Book
These linked essays form a memoir exploring the American outback from eastern Oregon horse trails to the arctic and subarctic river towns of Alaska. In Mostly Water, Alaska-based journalist and nature writer Mary Odden shares a series of personal essays celebrating the beauty and independent spirit of America's remote and rural Northern spaces. In these landscapes, human dwellers are entwined in histories and anecdotes as loopy as northern rivers. Odden invites the reader to a vivid patchwork of characters and seldom-seen places, with a soundtrack from fiddle dances and a menu that is "half potlatch and half potluck." Each essay features a recipe for a traditional regional dish, such as mincemeat, creamed salmon, and lingonberry sauce. As the stories unfold, events of the churning twenty-first century rise like the seaâas does a love of human togetherness and the precious otherness of nature.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1. Going to the Hills
- 2. March
- Lingonberry Sauce
- 3. From the Air
- 4. Shape of an Egg
- 5. People on the Ferry
- 6. Seeing the River
- 7. Sound of a Meadowlark
- 8. My Life in the Service of Dog
- 9. St. Anneâs Reel
- 10. Donât Let Me Come Home a Stranger
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Biographical Note