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Amy Hale Auker's first book of essays, Rightful Place, was the story of a woman finding beauty in her place, the Llano Estacado. Her new collection of creative non-fiction, Ordinary Skin, explores her mid-life transition with prose poems and essays that illustrate a new terrain as well as new ways of being in the world.Touching on faith and body image and belonging, these essays explore our role in deciding what is favorable or unfavorable, as well as where we some day want to dwell, and who came before us. In that touching, they feel their way with observations about current affairs, drought, mystery, and the hard decisions that face us all as we continue to move toward more questions with fewer answers. This exploration is informed and softened by hummingbirds, Gila monsters,bats, foxes, bears, wildflowers, and hidden seep springs where life goes on whether we are there to see it or not. It is about work in a wild and wilderness environment. In the end, even as life changes drastically around us, we are better off for knowing that the ugly mud bug turns into a jewel-toned dragonfly. No library descriptions found. |
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This is a book about love. The true love you find with that one person, if you’re lucky, love of family and their ways, love of the land and its secrets, and love of work, however difficult.
The first essay,"Ordinary Skin," is beautiful, but "Glow Time" is what made me stop everything to tell the world how wonderful Amy is. It's exactly what being in love is and brought tears to my eyes.
Thank you, Amy, for sharing your love with your readers. I'm glad I waited to read it until I needed it.
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She’ll do to Float the River With and Not Enough Snoopy Band-Aids are love letters to her children. They are very different essays in the way they are written, one as a retelling of an adventure, the other as a sort of letter. The essays are different in much the same way we learn Amy’s feelings towards and relationships with are unique and powerful.
My favorite parts of the stories are the parts about Gail, like KFC in the Dark. Or maybe about animals. Or maybe about her children. Or her mother. Or her father. Or her adventures. Or embracing herself and her uniqueness. Regardless, Amy gives us her heart in these stories, and I am grateful. ( )