Leaning Into the Wind: A Memoir of Midwest Weather
- ISBN-10
- 0816642621
- ISBN-13
- 9780816642625
- Series
- Leaning Into the Wind
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 124
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- U of Minnesota Press
- Author
- Susan Allen Toth
Description
"Leaning into the Wind is a series of ten intimate essays in which Susan Allen Toth, who was spent most of her life in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, reveals the ways in which weather has challenged and changed her perceptions about herself and the world around her. She describes her ever-growing awareness of and appreciation for how the weather marks the major milestones of her life. Toth explores issues as large as weather and spirituality in "Who Speaks in the Pillar of Cloud?" and topics as small as mosquito in "Things That Go Buzz in the Night." In "Storms," a severe thunderstorm becomes a continuing metaphor for the author's troubles first marriage. Two essays, one from late middle age, ponder how the weather seems different at various stages of life but always provides unexpected opportunities for self-discovery, change, and renewal."--BOOK JACKET.
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- 1998-04
- 388 pages
- Paperback
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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