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In Narrative Wilderness, Being in Time and Place, artist Bonnie Durrance takes us on a journey in which leaving home becomes a way to learn how to see clearly and how to love. Lyrical, wry, and painterly, she tells us how she learned to protect her creative self in a loving marriage. Not enough Virginia Woolf's room of one's own; Durrance needs a whole building, if only a ten-by-ten ""casita"" where she can smell the ocean. ""All I ever wanted, visible and invisible, I found here,"" she writes. Then circumstances force her and her husband to put their idyl up for sale.

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Narrative Wilderness is a love story, a hymn to nature's plants and creatures, and a quest to adapt to life's vicissitudes. Each chapter opens with one of Durrance's drawings; she writes as she draws, paints, and photographs, with an eye for the small, telling quirk that lifts a story or an image above the ordinary. - Patricia Galagan, Santa Fe-based photographer, writer, editor. Bonnie Durrance is an exquisite writer and artist, and Narrative Wilderness is a gem. Her sentences sparkle, her drawings beguile, and her observations ring true - Jacques Leslie, author of Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People and the Environment, winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for the book's ""elegant, beautiful prose."" Narrative Wilderness is a delight from start to finish. Bonnie Durrance's visual gifts as an illustrator and photographer beautifully inform her dazzling, vivid prose. Whether she's describing human nature, or the stunning nature of the flora and fauna surrounding her slice of California paradise, her keen observation skills invite the reader to slow down and look closely along with her as she zooms in on so many details that are easy to miss in our ever-dizzying world of distractions. An utterly compelling read. - Spike Gillespie, Award-winning journalist, and author of many books.

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Bonnie Durrance, born and brought up in Washington D. C., has made it her mission to live and work in places that called to her soul: on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, as a teacher; on the Coast of Maine, as a photographer; back to the cities, Washington, D. C. and New York, as a producer of multi-media installations for museums and corporate clients; then on to the coast of West Marin, California, where she returned to her love of writing and fine art photography. Now, she works and makes her home beside the Napa River in the Napa Valley with her husband, Robert, six chickens, numerous coyotes, and other wild things.

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