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Summary: Honest, heartwarming, hopeful
Review: This anthology is a collection of essays and poems by women who live (or lived) in the American West, on their idea of what community means to them.
Some of these women are professional writers, and some are previously unpublished writers, but some simply have a story to tell.
And what stories! These women write in a straightforward and unpretentious manner about the women (and men) who lift them up, aggravate them, support them, teach them, and, more often than not, need their help in return. We hear stories of Native American healers, church groups serving funeral lunches, firefighters, book clubs, families, snow-shovel posses, and politics in the West.
I feel like I want to give this book to all of my close women friends, whether they physically live in my community or not.
The essays in this book will definitely make you think about your own connections to others, no matter what size town you call home. I highly recommend it, and cannot wait to get my hands on the other anthologies by these editors (Leaning into the Wind, and Woven on the Wind).
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Summary: A must for any woman--western or not
Review: To be quite honest, the only reason I bought this book was because my friend's essay was in it. Wow! now I want to buy all of the books in this series of anthologies.
These are true stories by our friends, neighbors, and people we probably don't much care for who live down the lane. And because these women so fearlessly let us into their lives, we are able to be part of that circle of comapssion and understanding that is what I believe is the true nature of humanity.
Yeah I know, I'm making it sound like it's a bluepprint for world peace--but maybe it is!
Anyway, these are stories(and poems) that will make you weep and laugh out loud --I would recommend it to any type ofwomen studies groups.
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