Prairie silence

a memoir
Melanie M Hoffert
Book - 2013

A rural expatriate's struggle to reconcile family, home, love, and faith with the silence of the prairie land and its people. Hoffert longs for her North Dakota childhood home, with its grain trucks and empty main streets. Like most rural kids, she followed the out-migration pattern to a better life: the prairie is a hard place to stay-- particularly if you are gay. Taking a break from the city to spend a harvest season at her family's farm, Hoffert learns about making peace with faith, and belonging to a place where neighbors are as close as blood but are often unable to share their deepest truths.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoffert, Melanie M., 1974-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, ©2013.
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