Wild Card Quilt: The Ecology of Home (World As Home, The)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 328 pages
• Published by: Milkweed Editions August 10, 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1571312781
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1571312785
• Book Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 14.4 ounces

Product Review
"a satisfying ending to her bizarre and readable story..alive with good imagery and colorful characters" -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 18, 2003

"A wonderful book of one woman's effort to come to terms with herselfRay has written another must-read book" -- Tulsa World, July 27, 2003

"Ray's honest, straightforward style resonates with unassuming power, sweeping readers along like a great current in a broad river." -- Orlando Sentinel, June 22, 2003

"clear-eyed, lyrical descriptionsThis is nature writing at its bestHer book will make you long for home." -- St. Petersburg Times, June 22, 2003

Ray’s ruminations on hope, community and sustainable living is highly recommended for public libraries and regional collections. -- Library Journal

This is the story of [Janisse Ray’s] ‘long road home again,’ a triumph of the best in her poetic spirit. -- Bellingham Herald, April 27, 2003

Product Description
Seventeen years after she'd left home "for good," Janisse Ray pointed her truck away from Montana and back to the small southern town where she was born. Wild Card Quilt is the story, by turns hilarious, heartbreaking, and ambitious, of the adventures of returning home. For Ray, it is a story of linking the ecology of people with the ecology of place — of recovering lost traditions as she works to restore the fractured ecosystem of her native South. Her story is filled with syrup boils, quilt making, alligator trapping, and the wonderful characters of a place where generations still succeed each other on the land. But her town is also in need of repair, physical and otherwise. Ray works to save her local school, sets up a writing group at the local hardware store, and struggles with whether she can be an adult in a childhood place.