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Short-listed for the 2002 Saskatchewan Book Awards for Best Non-Fiction and Best Book The stories in Coming Home are as surprising as the landscape of Saskatchewan itself and as varied as its weather. Through the author s reminiscences, we experience prairie life as it was more than sixty years ago, and as it is today. A rich cast of characters appears neighbours, drunks, misfits all with a place in the story. These are the tales of a father who lived hard, failed often, and was loved much, of a mother who was an artist at heart but became a teacher and farmer s wife through circumstance. We visit a prairie dance hall with a floor that rests on horsehair, encounter death, baptize a child, participate in a nude massage. We view sex from a farm boy s perspective, learn of home brew and cabbage rolls, eat breakfast with friends, and meet the author s favourite waitress. A sense of awe and wonder emerges through encounters with the land and the unfolding of the changing seasons.

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