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A review by arielamandah
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston
5.0
Blown away by this lovely book. It reads like the best, engaging fiction but has the oomph and meaningfulness of memoir. Houston is such a lovely writer. I am surprised and delighted that I am just discovering her now. Of course, this is not a book for everyone. It’s not perfect. Yet, within the first chapter, it burrowed inside my head and inside my heart.
Read it for the section on saying goodbye to her dog (which beautifully takes us by the hand and leads readers into the book’s thread of environmental writing), stay for her description of a boat trip to the arctic, and save the section on wildfire for when you have a long expanse of free time (it’s hard to put down).
Do you ever wish you could pin pieces of books on your wall like pictures or postcards so you could slip into them and inhabit them again at a glance? So many parts of her book were this for me.
Read it for the section on saying goodbye to her dog (which beautifully takes us by the hand and leads readers into the book’s thread of environmental writing), stay for her description of a boat trip to the arctic, and save the section on wildfire for when you have a long expanse of free time (it’s hard to put down).
Do you ever wish you could pin pieces of books on your wall like pictures or postcards so you could slip into them and inhabit them again at a glance? So many parts of her book were this for me.