"This is a book for all of us, right now." -Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild Winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction Winner of the 2020 Reading the West Advocacy Award Arsen Kashkashian, Boulder Book Store, Boulder, CO She looks at how her life has been shaped by her beautiful ranch in Colorado’s high country, and she lovingly evokes that land with its horses, dogs, and, most importantly, the people who populate and enrich her life.” “ Deep Creek is Pam Houston at her most honest and lyrical. Stan Hynds, Northshire Saratoga, Saratoga Springs, NY Summer 2020 Reading Group Indie Next List Both deeply personal and wide-reaching, Deep Creek is about the human capacity to feel grief and joy all at once for the ground beneath one’s feet and the planet as a whole.” Pam Houston has 120 acres of it, and readers get a glimpse of life and death on the ranch in this marvelous combination of memoir and nature writing. Either way, it is a wondrous Rocky Mountain paradise - a paradise beset by bitter cold, fires, and various degrees of hardship, but always exquisite beauty. “I can’t decide if Mineral County, Colorado, is a piece of heaven or if it’s actually heaven.
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