Wanderground: Stories of Hill Women

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Summary: The Potential of Women
Review: A co-worker loaned me her copy of Wanderground over a year ago. After reading a chapter or two it was layed aside. Apparently I wasn't ready to read it at that point in my life. Last month I found the book's purple and lavender cover winking at me from a pile of books. This time I was ready. I devored the stories.
I found Wanderground to be a fascinating vision of what women could be. Although there is a great deal of underlying justified anger in many of the stories, the loving environment in which the characters enfold themselves and each other demonstrate the potential for women that our cultural myths deny them.
Sally Gearhart touches not only on what women could be, but predates Danial Quinn's "Ismael" by twenty years in calling attention to western culture's wasteful and destructive use of the earth's resourses.
I found the respect for life, plant and animal, to be very compelling. It is too easy to forget in our pre-packaged shrink-wrapped consumer lives where our food comes from -- that a spirit was deprived of its host so that we may continue to live, for now.
For me, the most moving chapter was the last one, where an elderly woman and her goat prepare to pass on. I found myself in tears at the end of the book.
Thank you Sally, for sharing your vision.
-- Pat Henderson

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Summary: Horrible...
Review: This book is full of lies and misinformation. I cannot believe there are creatures in this world that advocate this kinds of things. It is just plain disgusting.

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Summary: This is a book you loan out and never see again.
Review: This is a book for all women and all men who are willing to expand their viewpoints of the world around them. These loosely linked stories follow a path towards realization reuniting men and women in one world of understanding. Well written and thought provoking.