In the Shadow of the Bear : A Michigan Memoir
Jim McGavran
In the Shadow of the Bear chronicles the author's return, after a forty-year absence, to the site of his childhood summer vacations at Little Glen Lake in northwestern Lower Michigan's Leelanau peninsula. The ancient Ojibwa legend that gave a name to the area's most striking geographical feature, the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes, offers a way of understanding his mother's powerful but sometimes restless force of love and ambition in the family, as well as his father's quieter, often self-sacrificing love. Chapters devoted to the return to Leelanau, to each of his parents, and to his father's family culminate in the narrative of his daughter's 2005 Leelanau wedding. Jim McGavran tells his story of self-discovery in prose that is alternatively frank and lyrical as he recaptures his bewildered yet enchanted boyhood self, filtered through his consciousness of longing and loss, lending the writing a particular poignancy.
წელი:
2010
გამოცემა:
1
გამომცემლობა:
Michigan State University Press
ენა:
english
გვერდები:
180
ISBN 10:
1609171276
ISBN 13:
9781609171278
ფაილი:
PDF, 1.21 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2010