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Title: Dear Park Ranger: Essays on Manhood, Restlessness, and the Geography of Hope
Publisher: Wayfarer Books
Publication Date: 2023
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1956368523
ISBN 13: 9781956368529
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good

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2024 Indiana Authors Awards, Debut Shortlist

2024 Nautilus Book Awards, Silver Winner, Memoir & Personal Journey / Essays

2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, Finalist, Travel and Essays

Jeff Darren Muse is a fatherless, childless Hoosier who wouldn't and couldn't stay put. Part Generation X travelogue, part love letter, part reflection on White male identity, Dear Park Ranger searches for purpose, companionship, a lost father, and home. Muse must break trail to find his way. From the farms and football fields of central Indiana, to snowy West Coast wildlands, from desert canyons, to meandering rivers, to a city built by slavery, he interrogates his younger years shaped by insecurity and wanderlust, as well as later choices such as marrying "Ranger Paula" and pursuing a tree hugger's career. At turns humorous and self-deprecating, redemptive and resolute, this is one man's stirring gut check through inner and outer terrain.

"An evocative consideration of the dualities of beauty and pain found both in nature and ourselves." - Kirkus Reviews

"[T]his whole book is a lesson in leaning in—into the natural world, yes, but also into what's going on in our own hearts as we figure out who we want to be in this world, how we want to love, and what we want to leave behind." - River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative

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