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Author Riddle, Julie

Title The solace of stones : finding a way through wilderness / Julie Riddle
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series American Lives
American lives.
Contents Prologue -- Tucson -- Lighting out -- That summer -- How to build a log house -- Splitting the difference -- Shadow animals -- Best wishes for your future -- Frontier girl -- Escape -- Japan -- Unraveling -- The solace of stones -- Broken body -- Shifting currents -- The gift
Summary "The memoir of a contemporary pioneer family who takes up homesteading in the wilderness of Montana, The Solace of Stones uncovers the complexities of memory, silence, and identity of a young woman who comes to terms with repressed childhood sexual abuse amid the cultural and gender mores enforced by enduring myths of the West"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Riddle, Julie
Riddle, Julie -- Childhood and youth
Riddle, Julie -- Travel -- Japan
Pioneers -- Montana -- Butte -- Biography
Frontier and pioneer life -- Montana -- Butte
Sexually abused children -- Montana -- Butte -- Biography
Child sexual abuse -- Montana -- Butte
Recovered memory -- Case studies
English teachers -- Japan -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Childhood and youth of a person
Child sexual abuse
English teachers
Frontier and pioneer life
Pioneers
Recovered memory
Sexually abused children
Travel
SUBJECT Butte (Mont.) -- Biography
Subject Japan
Montana -- Butte
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Case studies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780803288348
0803288344