The Exact Place: a memoir
A Memoir, Autobiography, Nonfiction book. This is simply a delight to read. To be honest I have known Margie and her...
A three-room house in northern Minnesota with no running water can seem crowded with a mother, stepfather, five siblings, and a dog. It was swampland barely claimed from wilderness, where temperatures of 40 below could freeze a chicken house full of hens. It was the place Margie accidentally killed her favorite dog, was chased by a timber wolf, learned to love work and humor and hate sheep. Her roots were tangled with the death of a father who was killed before her birth, leaving her mother a widow at seventeen. This was...
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- Pages: 254 pages
- ISBN: 9781937063986 / 0
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This book was so smartly written, with so much detail, that I was interested from the first page to the last. I really like memoirs that are well-written and accessible, and this one was no exception. Well done, Margie Haack! I'm looking forward to your next book now. This is simply a delight to read. To be honest I have known Margie and her husband Denis for many years and this is the first memoir I have read by someone I know. Margie's writing is so good that you can almost taste the blueberries, feel the cold Minnesota winters and smell the multitude of smells associated with living on a farm.... An engaging memoir of growing up in the 50s in northern MN (almost Canada), on swampy farmland, in a three-room shotgun shack with six kids. Margie is the eldest, born after her mother was widowed at seventeen. Her stepfather takes care of her, but never loves her like the five that are his own. This might sound bleak, but the stories...
