Currently in the wilds of snowy Vermont, I'm enjoying my second graduate school residency so far. Today I was in a workshop about writing a blurb for your book, & this is what I came up with.....
Through expanding the intersection of science and emotion, missoula traces the ice-age floods
responsible for the geography of the Pacific Northwest, and outlines a woman’s
struggle with identity after an abusive childhood. Juxtaposing the findings of
J Harlen Bretz—the rebel geologist whose 1928 explorations led to the
development of a catastrophic flood theory—with stunning moments of sparse
imagistic poetry missoula asks how
fathers can shape their daughters in the same way these catastrophic natural
disasters once carved the physical landscape.
