Surfacing

Surfacing is an alluring examination of time in place in a world that is shrinking. Part memoir, part history, part travelogue, Kathleen Jamie weaves poetic ruminations on life, loss, and the feeling of uprootedness when one grows up and leaves home. Readers will follow a timeline that reconnects the past and presence amidst the backdrops of a thawing Alaskan tundra populated by the Yup'ik peoples who traditionally were hunter-gatherers, to the sifting of sands unveiling the remarkably well-preserved homes of farmers in Neolithic Scotland. With its captivating prose and evanescent poetry, Surfacing is story-telling at it's finest.

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