Homestead Girl The View From Here eBook Chantelle Pence
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Homestead Girl is a collection of poetic essays about Alaska, as seen through the eyes of the author who came of age on one of the last homesteads in America. Each story is written from a perspective that is unique to a rural Alaskan upbringing, but the spirit in the writing applies to everyone.
Homestead Girl The View From Here eBook Chantelle Pence
I loved this book Chantelle write from a different perspective than most Alaskan writers. She understand life in rural Alaska and has experienced the true culture of this great state. Her personal experience in life makes for writing that gets to the soul. A must read for those who want to see real Alaska!Product details
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Homestead Girl The View From Here eBook Chantelle Pence Reviews
Synopsis Homestead Girl is a memoir of Chantelle Pence, whose parents brought her to Alaska as a young child, where she grew up on an original homestead. The memoir essentially covers her adult life while raising a family with occasional flashbacks to earlier times. The part of Alaska where she lives is seriously remote Slana (population 147) near Tok (population 1,258) in the eastern part of central Alaska. It is an Ahtna Native area where her family settled and became part of the area. She has experienced feeling an occasional outsider among the Natives where she and her family were in the minority. She went through youthful feelings of guilt as having somehow been responsible for problems today's Natives face. The environment includes Mt. Sanford, a jaw-droppingly beautiful, snow-covered mountain, visible in her remote setting. It is 2,000 feet higher than Mt. Rainier in Washington State. Pence grows up transplanted and lives her life in true Alaskan style. She and her Native spouse raise three children. Resilient, when the local schools closed, they moved temporarily to Anchorage so their children could attend school. The telling of her first son's suicide is a haunting reminder of the tale of too many Natives in this state. In her remote home, running water indoors is a later-in-life luxury. Through it all, Pence's sensitivity to nature all around her is touching, though not surprising. Her description of following her husband's trap line alone and discovering a beautiful lynx trapped is especially Alaskan and poignant.
Critique Chanelle Pence chose to write her memoir in short essays grouped into three sections The Ancestors, The People, The Place. Her prose is poetic and her observations inspiring. She has the combination of connection to people regardless of who they are, a sensitivity to nature, and a realistic view of life. That combination gives her an amazing sense of gentle strength that comes across to the reader. The essay approach, nonetheless, lets her power punch her messages in ways that provide the reader time to ruminate on some of the essays, something that's helpful to gain the full impact of the words. I highly recommend Homestead Girl The View From Here for libraries with Alaskan themes and for community libraries everywhere.
A beautiful book to read slowly and savor, one essay at a time. Perfect to gift to friends and family visiting Alaska.
I love this book. Thoughtful, poetic and quietly powerful, Chantelle's memoir gave me a soulful glimpse into life in the Alaskan wilderness — both the beauty and the pain of a life lived on the edge of colliding cultures and blending values. Chantelle's honest portrayal of her life as a white woman and daughter of homesteaders, now married to a native man, is a deep, personal exploration of ancestral inheritance and the personal price of collective conditioning and remote political decisions that are carried on for generations, for good and for ill. Compelling and deeply felt, I read it in one sitting.
A thoroughly enjoyable book. Written as prose, but some portions of Homestead Girl read like beautiful poetry. Pence’s intimate and thought-provoking work is highly recommended reading for everyone.
In my mind I could see Alaska in all it's beauty. Thank you for sharing your family and life with me.
I loved this book Chantelle write from a different perspective than most Alaskan writers. She understand life in rural Alaska and has experienced the true culture of this great state. Her personal experience in life makes for writing that gets to the soul. A must read for those who want to see real Alaska!
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