![]() ![]() ![]() In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston’s most profound meditations yet on how "to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief.to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive. Specialties: FireFly Farms offers nationally and internationally award-winning goat cheese that features the distinct regional flavors of Mountain Marylands Allegheny Plateau. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston’s sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Winner of the 2020 Reading the West Advocacy Award Winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction This is a book for all of us, right now. ![]() ![]() On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. "How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us." Pam Houston will speak about and sign her new book, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, on Wednesday, January 30th at 6:30pm at Boulder Public. ![]()
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