· Prairie Silence: A Memoir by Melanie Hoffert PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad A rural expatriate’s struggle to reconcile family, home, love, and faith with the silence of the prairie land and its people Melanie Hoffert longs for her North Dakota childhood . A rural expatriate’s struggle to reconcile family, home, love, and faith with the silence of the prairie land and its people Melanie Hoffert longs for her North Dakota childhood home, with its grain trucks and empty main streets. A land where she imagines standing at the bottom of the ancient lake that preceded the prairie: crop rows become the patterned sand ripples of the lake floor; trees. ― Melanie Hoffert, Prairie Silence: A Memoir. 0 likes. Like “As a child when I visited my grandparents near the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming I felt claustrophobic. The mountains seemed to block the sky and my eyes were forced to stop, when they were used to looking for miles across flat fields that didn’t end, but simply rolled up into /5.
Prairie silence: a memoir by Hoffert, Melanie M., Publication date Topics Hoffert, Melanie M., , Lesbians -- North Dakota -- Biography, Coming out (Sexual orientation) Publisher Boston: Beacon Press Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Digitizing sponsor. - Beacon Press - hardcover - $ (ebook editions available at lower prices) Melanie Hoffert's Prairie Silence is about growing up on the prairie of North Dakota. The silence she talks about is most often her own, though there are many other kinds of silences in the small town she grew up in. Melanie Hoffert is the author of Prairie Silence: A Memoir. She grew up on a farm near Wyndmere, North Dakota, where she spent her childhood wandering gravel roads and listening to farmers at church potlucks. Her work has been published in several literary journals, and she holds an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University.
Prairie Silence: A Memoir by Melanie Hoffert PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad A rural expatriate’s struggle to reconcile family, home, love, and faith with the silence of the prairie land and its people Melanie Hoffert longs for her North Dakota childhood home, with its grain trucks and empty main streets. Born. The United States. Genre. Memoir, Gay and Lesbian. edit data. Melanie Hoffert grew up on a farm near Wyndmere, North Dakota where she spent her childhood meandering gravel roads, listening to farmers at church potlucks, and daydreaming about impossible love. She has an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University, where The Silent Land. A rural expatriate’s struggle to reconcile family, home, love, and faith with the silence of the prairie land and its people Melanie Hoffert longs for her North Dakota childhood home, with its grain trucks and empty main streets. A land where she imagines standing at the bottom of the ancient lake that preceded the prairie: crop rows become the patterned sand ripples of the lake floor; trees.
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