The Nature of Home: A Lexicon of Essays

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For Lisa Knopp, homesickness is a literal sickness. Right through a lengthy sojourn away from the Nebraska prairie, she fell sick, and only when she determined to go back home did she get well. Homesickness is the triggering event for this collection of essays concerned with nothing not up to what it means to feel at home. Knopp writes masterfully about ecology, place, and the values and beliefs that sustain the individual within an impersonal world. She is hooked in to her subject whether it be an endangered beetle in the salt marshes near Lincoln, Nebraska, a forgotten Nebraska inventor, a museum muralist, a paleontologist, or Arbor Day as the misguided attempt of Eastern settlers to “correct” a perceived deficiency in the Great Plains landscape. Here’s a creator who has read widely and judiciously and for whom the whole lot resonates within the intricately structured definition of home.

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