Querencia - Softcover

Bodio, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 0944439152 ISBN 13: 9780944439159

Publisher: Clark City Pr, 1990

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A memoir by the author of "A Rage for Falcons" and "Aloft".

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In the late 1970s, Stephen Bodio, a Boston-based writer, amateur naturalist, and falconer, happened into Magdalena, New Mexico, on the way somewhere else. He never left. With an assortment of birds, dogs, snakes, and books, he took up residence in a ramshackle two-story house along US 60 and set out to live in the way of country people. "Querencia"--the Zen-like Spanish term means something like the tiny pocket of one's inner life where one is truly at home--details a decade of life there. Throughout the early pages of his memoir, Stephen finds himself tested by the locals for his knowledge of raptor birds, of snakes, of dogs. When he begins to pass the tests, his transformation is complete, earning him a home, a place in the heart. Querencia offers a fine brief on rural living, alternately reveling in country matters and acknowledging the difficulties involved in such exercises as luring cows home from the mountain wilderness into which they've strayed while steering clear of venomous reptiles and combative bull elk. It's a treasure. --Greg McNamee

About the Author:

Steve Bodio's essays have appeared in Gray's Sporting Journal, Sports Illustrated and other national publications. He has been featured on NPR's "All Things Considered". He lives with his wife Libby in Montana and New Mexico.

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