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In this coming-of-age memoir, Tarn Wilson explores the gifts and burdens of a counterculture childhood.
In the early 1970s, Wilson's hippie parents packed the family into a converted school bus with Suck Nixon painted on the side and aimed for the Canadian wilderness. They planned to raise their two young children close to the earth and free of shallow middle class values. When they settle on a remote island in British Columbia, their idealism smacks up against reality and threatens to tear apart the family.
Between each short lyric chapter, Wilson incorporates artifacts that illuminate the cultural forces shaping her parents' decisions, such as letters, recipes, photographs, timelines, newspaper clippings, and provocative excerpts from A Radical Approach to Child Rearing.
With both empathy and clear-eyed honesty, Wilson deconstructs the simplified narratives of the counterculture movement by sharing the story of one young, eager, flawed family's efforts to live the ideal. The book celebrates the power of the natural world, invites us to ask questions about how we raise children, and takes us on a journey of forgiveness. Ultimately, Wilson's story, although unusual, is all of ours: the path from the world as we wish it were to the one that exists, with all its beauty and imperfections.
Stanford Magazine says, Tales of her youthful fits and starts could spark nostalgia even in those who didn't grow up romping around in the words with near complete freedom.
Lia Purpura, award-winning poet and essayist, writes that Wilson reconstructs the powerful atmosphere of a past era, its magic, contentment and freedom, its restrictions and losses.
The genre-defining essayist Judith Kitchen says, Tarn Wilson deftly turns memoir into an interactive project.
Brenda Miller, co-author of the bestselling guide to creative nonfiction Tell It Slant, praises a textured memoir of childhood that captures the zeitgeist of the 60s . . .
Winner of the Wandering Aengus Book Award, Tarn Wilson's memoir in essays In Praise of Inadequate Gifts explores the varied ways we cope with trauma and loss-and the miraculous, awkward, and imperfect process of renewal.
Wilson explores a wide range of topics: her obsession with teeth, why she doesn't have children, the summer she spent soldering keyboards for Chrysler Le Barons. She traces the effects of her mother's rape, her confusion after her friend's mother is murdered, her own divorce and struggle with anxiety, and her complex grief after the death of her distant father and mentally ill mother.
Wilson considers these difficult experiences with curiosity and gentle humor. Her honesty, empathy, and lack of self-pity make us feel we are sitting down with a trusted friend, inviting us to give voice to our own hard journey. Ultimately, this collection is about the redemptive power of kindness and connection. Love's gestures are so unassuming, so ordinary, so clumsy, so imperfect - yet, miraculously, they hold something larger than themselves, big enough to press back against the darkness.
Through her experimentation with form, Wilson's multifaceted reflections reveal how we come to understand our stories and the choices we make as we construct the narrative of our lives.
Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire, calls these essays, honest, powerful, and necessary.
Brenda Miller, co-author of the popular guide to creative nonfiction Tell It Slant, writes, Wilson shows us how we can tell stories that matter, even when our hearts have broken.
Renowned essayist Scott Russell Sanders says, These essays will surely resonate with readers who have faced their own hard questions.
Abigail Thomas, bestselling author of the memoir What Comes Next and How to Like It says, I fell in love on the very first page. Tarn Wilson is an irresistible writer and her new book is a treasure. Buy it, read it, tell everyone you know.