A View from the Inland Northwest: Everyday Life in America. This item is unavailable.A View from the Inland Northwest: Everyday Life in America

The United States of America is a vast, ever changing mixture of people, places, and events. Americans readily identify with their nation, as well as their region, state, town, and neighborhood. The tighter the focus, the quirkier the characteristics--although common themes of community, commerce, and commitment abound.

In this wonderfully written book, author Stephen J. Lyons examines everyday life in that part of the West known as the Inland Empire -- the area along the border of Washington and Idaho redolent with an inspiring landscape of forests and fields. While not a precise geographical area, this term has the following imprecise boundaries in mind: the Canadian border to the north; perhaps McCall, Idaho, to the south; the Bitterroot Mountains to the east along the Idaho/Montana border; and Moses Lake, Washington, or thereabouts to the west. And everything in between. Spokane, Washington would be the capitol of the region.

With sensitivity, compassion, and grace, author Stephen J. Lyons takes us into the tight-knit communities of the loggers, chaplains, artists, and others who define their lives in the wide-open spaces west of the Continental Divide.

Stephen J. Lyons writes articles, reviews, essays, and poems for a variety of national magazines, newspapers, journals, and anthologies, and has authored the book Landscape of the Heart. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, his work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Since 1997, he has been a contributor to High Country News' Writers on The Range syndication service, sent to 80 newspapers across the western United States.