One book one bozeman selects the weight of an infinite sky. Her second novel, the weight of an infinite sky morrow, january 16, 2018, is a family drama set in montana and loosely based on shakespeares hamlet. The only terrebonne who made it out, alma thought she. Carrier category volume carrier marc source rdacarrier content category text content type marc source rdacontent control code ocn861210101 dimensions 24 cm extent x, 289 pages isbn 9780062323446. Senate rejects iowa power fund nominee government and. She earned a doctorate in modern languages from oxford university as a rhodes scholar, a law degree from yale, and a bachelors degree magna cum laude from bryn mawr college.
Billings authors new book inspired by hamlet books missoulian. The home place 2014 and the weight of an infinite sky 2018. Jan 17, 2018 the weight of an infinite sky is available now in hardcover. A mesmerizing, emotionally evocative, and atmospheric literary novel in the vein of the house girl and a land more kind than home, the home place follows a successful lawyer as she is pulled back into her troubled familys life in rural montana in the. Shell speak about the writing and research for her book at country bookshelf on feb.
Des moines the iowa senate voted wednesday to reject gov. The critically acclaimed author of the home place explores the heart and mystery of big sky country in this evocative and atmospheric novel of family, home. The weight of an infinite sky bryn mawr alumnae bulletin. Her debut novel, the home place, won a high plains book award and was shortlisted for the strand critics award for best first novel. News world news business environment health social justice. The weight of an infinite sky is bound to be an instant western classic.
Lisa ko, author of the leavers powerfully evocative and pageturning. Craig johnson author of the bestselling longmire books and netflix series. Im still involved in plains justice, but i went back to private practice in 2012. This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches. Founded and secured funding for plains justice, a public interest law center serving northern plains communities on energy and environmental issues. Attorney, specializing in agricultural, environment and energy issues affecting northern plains communities and landowners. Author of the home place 2014, a literary thriller set in montana, published by william morrow, and the weight of an infinite sky 2018, a. Jim thomsen homeless guys and frat boys distancing at frat house lawn keggers catcall me when i go running. Pages can include considerable notesin pen or highlighterbut the notes cannot obscure the text. New york, ny, william morrow, an imprint of harpercollins publishers, 2014. I left the rural west at seventeen to attend bryn mawr, where people not many, but it made a deep impression mocked my clothes, my accent and idiom, and my politics. Carrier marc source rdacarrier content category text content type code. A mesmerizing, emotionally evocative, and atmospheric literary novel in the vein of the house girl and a land more kind than home, the home place follows a successful lawyer as she is pulled back into her troubled familys life in rural montana.
My frontier heritage has always been a taproot and a source of resolve. Billings authors new book inspired by hamlet books. But an unexpected call from the local police takes the successful lawyer back to her provincial hometown and pulls her into the family trouble she thought. One book one bozeman selects the weight of an infinite sky for. A successful lawyer is pulled back into her troubled familys life in rural montana in the wake of her sisters death. The only terrebonne who made it out, alma thought she was done with montana, with its bleak winters and stifling ways. She is the founder and executive director of plains justice, a nonprofit organization that provides energy and environment related legal services to the northern plains states. Trio of authors captures the character of the west local. In the wake of her manipulative sisters death, highpowered lawyer alma terrebonne is forced to return home to montana to deal with the family trouble she thought shed left behind, and, while tending to her orphaned niece, discovers that her sisters death may not have been an accident. Shes a rhodes scholar and a graduate of oxford university and yale law school. This is the urstory that i cant seem to stop writing. Carrie and plains justice have played a key role in halting several new coal plants, enacting clean energy reforms, and launching the keystone xl pipeline campaign. Its is a leisurely western, full of nuanced characters. Find out more about carrie at her website, follow her ontwitter, and connect with her on facebook.
Set against an indelibly drawn montana landscape, the home place explores the intangible ways we are both defined by and in opposition to the people and places we call home. Its mostly about encounters between an innocent young american woman in mexico at the time of their revolution and a revolutionary leader whos both. Aficionados, epicureos y ecoselectivos read what others are saying and join the. Aug, 2014 find out more about carrie at her website, follow her ontwitter, and connect with her on facebook.
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