Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston's sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect.

In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston's most profound meditations yet on how "to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief...to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive."

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01/29/2019
ISBN: 9780393241020
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.35w x 1.25d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2018 pg. 52
BookPage 02/01/2019
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2018 pg. 61
Publishers Weekly 09/17/2018
Library Journal 11/15/2018 pg. 89
Booklist 11/15/2018 pg. 15
Shelf Awareness 03/12/2019