Bøger af Phyllis Barber

From a backwoods church in Arkansas to the disappeared town of St. Thomas, buried beneath the waters of Lake Mead, essayist Phyllis Barber travels roads both internal and external, reflecting upon place and perspective, ambition and loss. As a child growing up in the Mojave Desert, she witnesses the massive power of the Hoover Dam and a fiery rip in the sky from the Nevada Test Site. As an adult, Barber searches for meaning through music, movement, and human connection, examining her Mormon upbringing, the profound ways people and landscape impact one another, and the sudden loss of her first child.

A sweeping, multi-layered novel based on the US government's decision to open more routes to California during the Gold Rush. To help navigate this waterless, largely unexplored territory, the War Department imported seventy-five camels to help traverse the brutal terrain that was murderous on other livestock.

When Phyllis Barber's thirty-three-year marriage ended, she had to redefine herself as a woman, a mother, and an artist. Raw Edges is her moving account of the "e;"e;lean years"e;"e; that followed her divorce. It is interwoven with a narrative of the marriage of two gifted people that begins with "e;"e;sealing"e;"e; in a Mormon temple, endures through the birth of four sons and the development of two careers, and founders when the couple's personal needs no longer match their aspirations or the rigid strictures of Mormon life. Raw Edges reflects the predicament that many women experience as their marriages disintegrate and they fail to achieve their own expectations as well as those set by their society and their faith. It is also a story of hope, of how a woman overcome by grief and confusion eventually finds a new approach to life.