A review by annevoi
Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie

4.0

This book of twelve essays explores, with depth of spirit and a noticing eye, memory, meaning, and the reach of time, as well as landscape as place and home, not just of humans but of all life. Jamie is also a poet, and it shows in the exquisite details and descriptions she renders. I thoroughly enjoyed this book—especially the long essay "In Quinhagak," about an archeological dig in Arctic Alaska, for her musings and her appreciations. There was something about the huge tundra landscape on the edge of the Bering Sea, and the people who live there so in tune with the land, that seemed to blow her heart wide open.