Daughters of the Grasslands: A Memoir (Memoir Series) - Softcover

Haug, Mary Woster

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933964928 ISBN 13: 9781933964928

Publisher: Bottom Dog Press, 2014

Synopsis

Mary Woster Haug offers a lovely, ruminative book transcending usual boundaries of memoir and travel writing. Set in modern, bustling Korea during a teaching year abroad, but forever grounded within implicating memories from South Dakota's stark landscape, Haug's writing evokes the intoxications of boiled silkworm, blood sausage, and Korean kimchi. These appear amid wafting tugs of childhood illness, a sometimes overanxious mother, and the magic of a childhood in Lakota country....Such intricate artistry, dating back some twenty-two centuries in Korea, fashions Haug's own book where knots of writer observation and memory grow all the stronger for our efforts to unravel them. ~Daniel W. Lehman, Co-Editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative

About this title

Book Description:

In the Harmony Memoir Series from Bottom Dog Press, here is a beautifully written book of family and life story woven into the author's life in South Dakota and Korea.|Daughters of the Grasslands

From the Inside Flap:

Daughters of the Grasslands: Memoirs by Mary Woster Haug

"The chapters in this book are layered and interwoven explorations of several cohesive themes: coming to understand the past, cross-cultural experience, knowing oneself through becoming a stranger, and relations to the land and to the traditions of two different places, and the mother-daughter bond both as metaphor and theme. ~Kent Meyers, author of The Witness of Combines

About this edition

• Publisher: Bottom Dog Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1933964928
• ISBN 13: 9781933964928
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192