Overview

On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Houston's ranch becomes her sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of parental abuse and neglect. In a work as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston's most profound meditations yet on how “to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief . . . to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive.”

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Highly recommended as a memoir that combines nature, writing, and personal reflection. -- Library Journal (starred review) Always impressive, Houston is in striking form here. Her talent remains remarkable and her words extraordinarily affecting and effective. -- Booklist (starred review) Houston's vision find a solid place among the chronicles of quiet appreciation of the American wilderness, without the misanthropy that often accompanies the genre; her passion for the land and its inhabitants is irresistibly contagious. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) A profound and inspiring love letter to one piece of Earth-and to the rest of it, as well. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Houston has a great range of vision, and she's fun to read. She gets the land right...In this perfectly American memoir, a restless heart finds its place. -- Craig Childs, author of Atlas of a Lost World In the face of the world's turmoil, this book is utter clarity. In the face of the world's harshness, this book is a soft place to land...If you find yourself careening toward despair, pick up Deep Creek and read even just one page. The words there will lift you back to hope-not the sentimental kind, but the kind that can and does change the world for the better. What gratitude we owe to Pam Houston for writing it. -- B. K. Loren, author of Animal, Mineral, Radical Full of wisdom, wit, and loving attention, Pam Houston's survey of her life and land should be required reading for anyone who loves this planet we call home. -- Camille T. Dungy, author of Guidebook to Relative Strangers Pam Houston is the rodeo queen of American letters. In Deep Creek, her voice has never been more fully realized, and her message never more important. -- Samantha Dunn, author of Not by Accident Deep Creek is a love letter to earth, animals, and the best of humanity. Pam Houston has taken our heartache and woven it back into hope. Her stories of love, loss, and a life lived in relationship to land give us good reasons not to give up on ourselves or each other. This is the book we need right now to remind us how to endure-passionately. An unstoppable heart song. -- Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Misfit's Manifesto This book is endlessly wise, funny, and full of heart. To say that its clear-eyed, doom-laden-yet loving-message is important and timely would be an understatement. It is unapologetically sincere, utterly moving. -- Tommy Orange, author of There There There is so much beauty, wisdom, and truth in this book, I felt the pages almost humming in my hands. I was riveted and enlightened, inspired and consoled. This is a book for all of us, right now. -- Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild

Houston has a great range of vision, and she's fun to read. She gets the land right. In this perfectly American memoir, a restless heart finds its place. -- Craig Childs, author of Atlas of a Lost World In the face of the world's turmoil, this book is utter clarity. In the face of the world's harshness, this book is a soft place to land. If you find yourself careening toward despair, pick up Deep Creek and read even just one page. The words there will lift you back to hope-not the sentimental kind, but the kind that can and does change the world for the better. What gratitude we owe to Pam Houston for writing it. -- BK Loren, author of Animal, Mineral, Radical Pam Houston is the rodeo queen of American letters. In Deep Creek, her voice has never been more fully realized, and her message never more important. -- Samantha Dunn, author of Not by Accident Deep Creek is a testament to the capacity of the human heart. Full of wisdom, wit, and loving attention, Pam Houston's survey of her life and land should be required reading for anyone who loves this planet we call home. -- Camille T. Dungy, author of Guidebook to Relative Strangers Deep Creek is a love letter to earth, animals, and the best of humanity. Pam Houston has taken our heartache and woven it back into hope. Her stories of love, loss, and a life lived in relationship to land give us good reasons not to give up on ourselves or each other. This is the book we need right now to remind us how to endure--passionately. An unstoppable heartsong. -- Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Misfit's Manifesto This book is endlessly wise, funny, and full of heart. To say that its clear-eyed, doom-laden-yet loving-message is important and timely would be an understatement. It is unapologetically sincere, utterly moving. -- Tommy Orange, author of There There There is so much beauty, wisdom, and truth in this book, I felt the pages almost humming in my hands. I was riveted and enlightened, inspired and consoled. This is a book for all of us, right now. -- Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild

Houston has a great range of vision, and she's fun to read. She gets the land right. Through water wars and love-worn days, she conveys life on a remote Colorado ranch, bringing to the place the maelstrom of her own history. This is a perfectly American memoir. A restless heart finds its place. -- Craig Childs, author of Atlas of a Lost World In the face of the world's turmoil, this book is utter clarity. In the face of the world's harshness, this book is a soft place to land. Above all else, Deep Creek is a love letter to the earth and the beings-both wild and human-that inhabit it. If you find yourself careening toward despair, pick up Deep Creek and read even just one page. The words there will lift you back to hope-not the sentimental kind, but the kind that can and does change the world for the better. What gratitude we owe to Pam Houston for writing it. -- BK Loren, author of Animal, Mineral, Radical Deep Creek is a testament to the capacity of the human heart. Full of wisdom, wit, and loving attention, Pam Houston's survey of her life and land should be required reading for anyone who loves this planet we call home. -- Camille T. Dungy, author of Guidebook to Relative Strangers Pam Houston is the rodeo queen of American letters. In Deep Creek, her voice has never been more fully realized, and her message never more important. -- Samantha Dunn, author of Not by Accident Deep Creek is a love letter to earth, animals, and the best of humanity. Pam Houston has taken our heartache and woven it back into hope. Her stories of love, loss, and a life lived in relationship to land give us good reasons not to give up on ourselves or each other. This is the book we need right now to remind us how to endure--passionately. An unstoppable heartsong. -- Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Misfit's Manifesto Pam Houston's extraordinary story about finding her way in the world by making a home on a ranch in Colorado moved me beyond measure. Deep Creek is a love song to the land, a deep rumination on healing, and a powerful story of one woman's reckoning. There is so much beauty, wisdom, and truth in this book, I felt the pages almost humming in my hands. I was riveted and enlightened, inspired and consoled. This is a book for all of us, right now. -- Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild

Houston has a great range of vision, and she's fun to read. She gets the land right. Through water wars and love-worn days, she conveys life on a remote Colorado ranch, bringing to the place the maelstrom of her own history. This is a perfectly American memoir. A restless heart finds its place. -- Craig Childs, author of Atlas of a Lost World In the face of the world's turmoil, this book is utter clarity. In the face of the world's harshness, this book is a soft place to land. Above all else, Deep Creek is a love letter to the earth and the beings-both wild and human-that inhabit it. If you find yourself careening toward despair, pick up Deep Creek and read even just one page. The words there will lift you back to hope-not the sentimental kind, but the kind that can and does change the world for the better. What gratitude we owe to Pam Houston for writing it. -- BK Loren, author of Animal, Mineral, Radical Deep Creek is a testament to the capacity of the human heart. Full of wisdom, wit, and loving attention, Pam Houston's survey of her life and land should be required reading for anyone who loves this planet we call home. -- Camille T. Dungy, author of Guidebook to Relative Strangers Pam Houston is the rodeo queen of American letters. In Deep Creek, her voice has never been more fully realized, and her message never more important. -- Samantha Dunn, author of Not by Accident Deep Creek is a love letter to earth, animals, and the best of humanity. Pam Houston has taken our heartache and woven it back into hope. Her stories of love, loss, and a life lived in relationship to land give us good reasons not to give up on ourselves or each other. This is the book we need right now to remind us how to endure--passionately. An unstoppable heartsong. -- Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Misfit's Manifesto

Houston's vision find a solid place among the chronicles of quiet appreciation of the American wilderness, without the misanthropy that often accompanies the genre; her passion for the land and its inhabitants is irresistibly contagious. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) A profound and inspiring love letter to one piece of Earth-and to the rest of it, as well. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) Houston has a great range of vision, and she's fun to read. She gets the land right...In this perfectly American memoir, a restless heart finds its place. -- Craig Childs, author of Atlas of a Lost World In the face of the world's turmoil, this book is utter clarity. In the face of the world's harshness, this book is a soft place to land...If you find yourself careening toward despair, pick up Deep Creek and read even just one page. The words there will lift you back to hope-not the sentimental kind, but the kind that can and does change the world for the better. What gratitude we owe to Pam Houston for writing it. -- B. K. Loren, author of Animal, Mineral, Radical Full of wisdom, wit, and loving attention, Pam Houston's survey of her life and land should be required reading for anyone who loves this planet we call home. -- Camille T. Dungy, author of Guidebook to Relative Strangers Pam Houston is the rodeo queen of American letters. In Deep Creek, her voice has never been more fully realized, and her message never more important. -- Samantha Dunn, author of Not by Accident Deep Creek is a love letter to earth, animals, and the best of humanity. Pam Houston has taken our heartache and woven it back into hope. Her stories of love, loss, and a life lived in relationship to land give us good reasons not to give up on ourselves or each other. This is the book we need right now to remind us how to endure-passionately. An unstoppable heart song. -- Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Misfit's Manifesto This book is endlessly wise, funny, and full of heart. To say that its clear-eyed, doom-laden-yet loving-message is important and timely would be an understatement. It is unapologetically sincere, utterly moving. -- Tommy Orange, author of There There There is so much beauty, wisdom, and truth in this book, I felt the pages almost humming in my hands. I was riveted and enlightened, inspired and consoled. This is a book for all of us, right now. -- Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild

Author Information

Pam Houston is the prize-winning author of Contents May Have Shifted, among other books. She is professor of English at the University of California–Davis and lives on a ranch at 9,000 feet in Colorado near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.

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