Pulling Down the Barn: Memories of a Rural Childhood

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Blending artful language and style with the dirt, blood, and sweat of farm life, this collection of essays tells a moving story of growing up in rural Michigan.

Pulling Down the Barn eloquently recalls author Anne-Marie Oomen’s personal journey as she discovers herself an outsider on her family farm located in western Michigan’s Oceana County, in the township of Elbridge–a couple hundred acres in the middle of rural America. Written as a series of heartfelt interlocking narratives, this collection of essays portrays the realities of farm life: haying, picking asparagus and cherries, the machinery of tractors and pickers; but each chapter also touches upon the more ethereal and rarely articulated: the stoic love that permeates a family, the farmer’s struggle with identity, and the way land can shape a childhood. With its rich language and style, Pulling Down the Barn engrosses the reader in Oomen’s memories–setting beauty and wonder against work and loss–and paints a poignant portrait of growing up in rural Michigan.

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Description

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Anne-Marie Oomen
Published: 07/28/2004
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814332337
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.02w x 0.34d

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Weight0.48 lbs
Dimensions9.02 × 6.02 × 0.34 in