Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living
Forty Seasons of Mountain Living
baby直播app the book: Determined to live an independent life on her own terms, Karen Auvinen flees to a primitive cabin in the Rockies to live in solitude as a writer and to embrace all the beauty and brutality nature has to offer. When a fire incinerates every word she has ever written and all of her possessions鈥攅xcept for her beloved dog Elvis, her truck, and a few singed artifacts鈥擪aren embarks on a heroic journey to reconcile her desire to be alone with her need for community.
In the evocative spirit of works by Annie Dillard, Gretel Ehrlich, and Terry Tempest Williams, Karen鈥檚 鈥渂eautiful, contemplative鈥reathtaking [debut] memoir honors the wildness of the Rockies鈥 (Publishers Weekly, starred review). 鈥淩ough Beauty offers a glimpse into a life that鈥檚 pared down to its essentials, open to unexpected, even profound, change鈥 (Brevity Magazine), and Karen鈥檚 pursuit of solace and salvation through shedding trivial ties and living in close harmony with nature, along with her account of finding community and even love, is sure to resonate with all of us who long for meaning and deeper connection. An 鈥渙utstanding鈥eautiful story of resilience鈥 (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Rough Beauty is a luminous, lyric exploration, 鈥渁 narrative that reads like a captivating novel...a voice not found often enough in literature鈥攁 woman who eschews the prescribed role outlined for her by her family and discovers her own path鈥 (Christian Science Monitor) to embrace the unpredictability and grace of living intimately with the forces of nature.
baby直播app the author: Karen Auvinen is a poet, mountain woman, dog lover, lifelong westerner and writer. Her body of work traverses the intersections of landscape and place, examining what it means to live deeply and voluptuously, and has appeared in the New York Times, Real Simple, LitHub and numerous literary journals. Karen is the winner of two Academy of American Poets Awards