Description

Ivan Doig was raised with merely a hazy recollection of his mom, Berneta, who perished on his sixth birthday. He then found a cache of her characters--and through them, a spunky, enthusiastic, can do lady as athome in the seat as behind a sewing machine, and as in deep love with vocabulary as Doig might end up being. In this shifting prequel to his acclaimed memoir This House of Sky, Doig brings alive his youth before his mother's death and the family's trip in the Montana hills to the Arizona wilderness and back again. He gracefully conveys the consistency of the American West during and after-world War II, the bundle of the family, and one-woman's indomitable character.