The Solace of Stones
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The Solace of Stones

Finding a Way through Wilderness

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The Solace of Stones

Finding a Way through Wilderness

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Everything changes when Julie Riddle's parents stumble across the wilderness survival guide How to Live in the Woods on Pennies a Day. In 1977, when Riddle is seven years old, she and her familyā€”fed up with the challenges of city lifeā€”move to the foot of the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in northwestern Montana. For three years they live in the primitive basement of the log house they are building by hand in the harsh, remote Montana woods. Meanwhile, haunted by the repressed memory of childhood sexual abuse, Riddle struggles to come to terms with the dark shadows that plague her amid entrenched cultural and gender mores enforced by enduring myths of the West. As Riddle grapples with her own painful secrets, she discovers the world around her and its impact on peopleā€”the demands of living in a rural, mountain community dependent on boom-and-bust mining and logging industries, the health and environmental crises of the W. R. Grace asbestos contamination and EPA cleanup, and the healing beauty of the Montana wild. More than simply a memoir about family and place, The Solace of Stones explores Riddle's coming of age and the complexities of memory, loss, and identity borne by a family homesteading in the modern West.

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Publisher
Bison Books
Year
2016
ISBN
9780803288348
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. List of Illustrations
  9. Prologue
  10. Tucson
  11. Lighting Out
  12. That Summer
  13. How to Build a Log House
  14. Splitting the Difference
  15. Shadow Animals
  16. Best Wishes for Your Future
  17. Frontier Girl
  18. Escape
  19. Japan
  20. Unraveling
  21. The Solace of Stones
  22. Broken Body
  23. Shifting Currents
  24. The Gift
  25. Acknowledgments
  26. Selected Bibliography
  27. About Julie Riddle
  28. Series List