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Miracle Country
by Kendra Atleework
Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. Thanks! All opinions are my own.
Book: Miracle Country
Author: Kendra Atleework
Book Series: Standalone
Rating: 5/5
Recommended For...: autobiography, non-fiction, California history, memoir, environment
Publication Date: June 16. 2020
Genre: Autobiography Memoir
Recommended Age: (death, TW self-harm, TW sexual assault, TW suicide idealations)
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Synopsis: Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero.
Kendra’s family raised their children to thrive in this harsh landscape, forever at the mercy of wildfires, blizzards, and gale-force winds. Most of all, the Atleework children were raised on unconditional love and delight in the natural world. But it came at a price. When Kendra was six, her mother was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease, and she died when Kendra was sixteen. Her family fell apart, even as her father tried to keep them together. Kendra took flight from her bereft family, escaping to the enemy city of Los Angeles, and then Minneapolis, land of all trees, no deserts, no droughts, full lakes, water everywhere you look.
But after years of avoiding the pain of her hometown, she realized that she had to go back, that the desert was the only place she could live. Like Wild, Miracle Country is a story of flight and return, bounty and emptiness, and the true meaning of home. But it also speaks to the ravages of climate change and its permanent destruction of the way of life in one particular town.
Review: For the most part I really enjoyed this book! The book did really good dancing back and forth between the past and the present and I really liked how the duel POVs did. The characters were really compelling and the world building was also really well done.
The only thing that really didn’t do well for me was the pacing. It was really slow in the beginning and the book didn’t have a fast pace throughout the book, which might not do well for some readers.
Verdict: A very well done novel!
Book: Miracle Country
Author: Kendra Atleework
Book Series: Standalone
Rating: 5/5
Recommended For...: autobiography, non-fiction, California history, memoir, environment
Publication Date: June 16. 2020
Genre: Autobiography Memoir
Recommended Age: (death, TW self-harm, TW sexual assault, TW suicide idealations)
Publisher:
Pages:
Synopsis: Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero.
Kendra’s family raised their children to thrive in this harsh landscape, forever at the mercy of wildfires, blizzards, and gale-force winds. Most of all, the Atleework children were raised on unconditional love and delight in the natural world. But it came at a price. When Kendra was six, her mother was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease, and she died when Kendra was sixteen. Her family fell apart, even as her father tried to keep them together. Kendra took flight from her bereft family, escaping to the enemy city of Los Angeles, and then Minneapolis, land of all trees, no deserts, no droughts, full lakes, water everywhere you look.
But after years of avoiding the pain of her hometown, she realized that she had to go back, that the desert was the only place she could live. Like Wild, Miracle Country is a story of flight and return, bounty and emptiness, and the true meaning of home. But it also speaks to the ravages of climate change and its permanent destruction of the way of life in one particular town.
Review: For the most part I really enjoyed this book! The book did really good dancing back and forth between the past and the present and I really liked how the duel POVs did. The characters were really compelling and the world building was also really well done.
The only thing that really didn’t do well for me was the pacing. It was really slow in the beginning and the book didn’t have a fast pace throughout the book, which might not do well for some readers.
Verdict: A very well done novel!