Hawk Flies Above: Journey to the Heart of the Sandhills

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A memoir of the writer’s life ranges from her childhood in Nebraska to her parent’s separation, and a lifetime of drinking and living at the streets
First-time writer Norton strikes a fine balance between memoir and nature essay in writing of her homecoming to the wellspring of her childhood memories, the Cedar River of Nebraska. She had come home to nurse the grief of getting been raped and of looking to drown the memory of that horrible event in alcohol. “For long years I felt afloat with out mooring, with out anchor,” she writes, until she in spite of everything returned to that lean and austere place of childhood pleasures. Her account of finding a psychic center among friends and family is affecting with out being sentimental, and Norton writes warmly of the plants and animals that inhabit this place–cranes, curlews, sand roses, and other denizens of the Prime Plains–and of the individuals who work the land.

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