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Author Spagna, Ana Maria, author

Title Uplake : restless essays of coming and going / Ana Maria Spagna
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages)
Contents Slow connection -- More than noise -- Winter flood -- Confessional roots -- So many rings -- Breathe -- The fiddler on the rock -- When we talk about courage -- Where you'd rather be -- How to brine an elk steak -- Post-strayed -- Away from shore -- The tree in the river -- The injured bear -- Flight delay -- Together we pause -- Here in the WUI -- Fire one, fire two -- Pierce
Summary "For many years, Ana Maria Spagna has stayed put, mostly, in a small mountain valley at the head of a glacier-carved lake. You're so lucky to live there, people say. She is lucky. But she is also restless. In Uplake she takes road trips, flies to distant cities, fantasizes about other people's lives, and then returns home again to muse on rootedness, yearning, commitment, ambition, wonder, and love. These engaging, reflective essays celebrate the richness of it all: winter floods and summer fires, the roar of a chainsaw and a fiddle in the wilderness, long hikes and open-water swims, an injured bear, a lost wedding ring, and a tree in the middle of a river. Uplake reminds us to love what we have while encouraging us to still imagine what we want"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Spagna, Ana Maria -- Travel
SUBJECT Spagna, Ana Maria fast
Subject Women authors, American -- Biography
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
Women authors, American
Travel
SUBJECT Northwest, Pacific -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes
Subject Pacific Northwest
Genre/Form essays.
autobiographies (literary works)
Essays
Biographies
Autobiographies
Anecdotes
Essays.
Autobiographies.
Essais.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021692792
ISBN 9780295743233
0295743239