A01=Pamela Carter Joern
author memoir
Author_Pamela Carter Joern
becoming a writer
cancer memoir
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collected stories about Nebraska
creative nonfiction
creative writing
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essays about personhood
essays about place
essays about the passage of time
family memoir
Great Plains
growing up in rural Nebraska
link between memory and truth
Literary Essays
Literature
memoir
Midwest
Midwest literature
Nebraska
Nebraska authors
Nebraska literature
Nebraska memoir
parenthood memoir
plains literature
plains memoir
prairie literature
prairie memoir
raising children
rural memoir
surviving cancer
women writers
women's memoir
wry humor
Product details
- ISBN 9781496242785
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2025
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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With keen observation and deep reflection, Pamela Carter Joern probes her life. No topic is too small or too sacred, from gutting chickens to GaudÍ’s cathedral. Through a range of experiences-growing up in rural Nebraska, raising children, surviving cancer, becoming a writer-she explores the tenuous link between memory and truth. Joern displays a gift for mining wisdom through surprising connections, juxtaposing her father’s life to the discoveries of Isaac Newton or the writer’s task to the ancient art of alchemy. She weds philosophical insight and spiritual imagination and laces this amalgam with candor and wit, resulting in a work that is engaging, intimate, and illuminating.
Pamela Carter Joern is the author of four works of fiction: Toby’s Last Resort, In Reach, The Plain Sense of Things, and The Floor of the Sky, all published by the University of Nebraska Press. She has written six plays that have been produced in the Twin Cities of Minnesota and taught writing at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis for ten years.
