A review by shalms
In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country by Kim Barnes

4.0

This is a lovely memoir of family, faith, and place. She captured the nurturing and cruelty of her fundamentalist upbringing, the ways she could know and understand her parents and the ways in which she could not, the beauty of her childhood home and what it gave her. I really loved reading it, especially the parts about growing up in the forest of northern Idaho.

One of my favorite passages: "I think of how long we search to find that place we might call ours, where we might feel we have found a home: the perfect house in the perfect town; the secret hollow; that place in the heart we call love; that state of grace we call salvation."