Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life by Babine, Karen
Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life by Babine, Karen

Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life

2016 Minnesota Book Award Winner for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction Consider your place, the place where you...
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Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life by Babine, Karen

Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life

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Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life by Babine, Karen

Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life

BD$31.50
Author: Karen Babine
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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2016 Minnesota Book Award Winner for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction

Consider your place, the place where you feel the most at home: a tree-lined lake, a bean field planted on stolen land, a rig drilling the golden prairie, city streets alive with energy. Written in the language of the northern landscape of experience, Karen Babine explores the meaning of being in your place on a particular day.

In essays that travel from the wildness of Lake Superior to the order of an apple orchard, Babine traces an ethic of place, a way to understand the essence of inhabiting a place deeply rooted in personal stories. She takes us from moments of reflection, through the pages of her Minnesota family's history, to the drama of the land and the shaping of the earth. From the Mississippi's Headwaters in Itasca State Park--its name from veritas caput, or "true head"--she explores the desire that drives the idea of the North. The bite of a Honeycrisp apple grown in Ohio returns her to her origin in Minnesota and to pie-making lessons in her Gram's kitchen. In the Deadwood, South Dakota, of her great-great-grandfather, briefly police chief; in the translation of her ancestors from Swedish to Minnesotan; on the outer edge of the New Madrid Fault in Nebraska; through the flatlands along I-90; at the foot of Mount St. Helens: Babine pursues what the Irish call dinnseanchas, place-lore. How, she asks, does land determine what kind of people grow in that soil? And through it all runs water, carrying a birch bark canoe with a bullet hole and a bloodstain, roaring over the Edmund Fitzgerald, flooding the Red River Valley, carving the glaciated land along with historical memory.

As she searches out the stories that water has written upon human consciousness, Babine reveals again and again what their poignancy tells us about our place and what it means to be here.



Author: Karen Babine
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 02/15/2015
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780816696789


Award: Minnesota Book Award - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/15/2015 pg. 28

About the Author

Karen Babine is assistant professor of English at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. Her essays have appeared in River Teeth, Sycamore Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Ascent, and elsewhere. She is the editor of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies.




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