The deer camp : a memoir of a father, a family, and the land that healed them / Dean Kuipers.
"For readers of The Stranger in the Woods and H Is for Hawk, a beautifully written and emotionally rewarding memoir about a father, his three sons, and a scrappy 100-acre piece of land in rural Michigan. Bruce Kuipers was good at hunting and fishing, but not at anything else that makes a real father or husband. Distant, angry, and a serial cheater, he destroyed his relationship with his wife, Nancy, and alienated his three sons--journalist Dean, woodsman Brett, and troubled yet brilliant fisherman Joe. He distrusted people and clung to rural America as a place to hide. So when Bruce purchased a 100-acre hunting property as a way to reconnect with his sons, they resisted. The land was the perfect bait, but the moment the sons arrived, none of them knew how to be together as a family. Conflicts arose over whether the land--an old farm that had been degraded and reduced to a few stands of pine and blowing sand--should be left alone or be actively restored. After a decade-long impasse, Bruce acquiesced, and his sons proceeded with their restoration plan. What happened next was a miracle of nature. Dean Kuipers weaves a beautiful and surprising story about the restorative power of land and of his own family, which so desperately needed healing. Heartwarming and profound, The Deer Camp is the perfect story of fathers, sons, and the beauty and magic of the natural world"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781635573480
- ISBN: 1635573483
- Physical Description: xv, 286 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
- Copyright: ℗♭2019
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | The deer camp -- Hello, Winter Maker -- The big chair -- The darkness -- A boat -- Muskrat Island -- God in the many -- Animal talk -- Back to the cabin -- First plantings -- The other Kuipers -- Does sand dream of trees? -- Sends a deer -- Trails End Motel. |
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Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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Bronson Branch | 977.4 KUI (Text) | 35403424156870 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
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