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Title: The Bat House: A Montana Memoir
Publisher: Wordsworth
Publication Date: 2024
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1733489762
ISBN 13: 9781733489768
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good

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When Michael Riley bought a 1917 farmhouse on the Yellowstone River fifteen miles from where he grew up, he had no idea what he was getting into. Much of what was in store for him wasn't exactly "a delight," including the presence of an enormous bat colony and decades of guano. But luckily for readers, this memoir chronicling reclaiming the house, evicting the bats, and contemplating the life that had led him to this property is absolutely a delight. While he deftly uses his bat nemesis as a central axis to this moving memoir, the book is a love story about a forty-plus year marriage to a remarkable woman, about decades of teaching inspiring (and challenging) students, about rivers and mountains and dogs and poker, about sobriety and acceptance, and yes, even about a love affair-of sorts-with bats.

The book reveals the author's emotional life dealing with the trials of financial stress, his wife's cancer diagnosis, drought and flood, resolving a violent addictive past, and loss of venerable history. Acceptance arrives through learning the crucial role of bats in our ecosystem and the unexpected benefits of practicing yoga.

About the Author

Mike Riley grew up along the Yellowstone River in eastern Montana. He has an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Montana and served as writer in residence for the Montana Arts Council and the Wyoming Arts Council. He taught English and Journalism in various places around the world before retiring in Cody, Wyoming.

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