Between the beautiful imagery of her 120-acre ranch located by Creed, Colorado, and her love of nature, the author brings a message of hope even in uncertain times. The Colorado-based book is the winner of 2020 Reading the West Advocacy Award and the 2020 Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. This year the selected book is “Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country” written by award-winning author, Pam Houston, best known for her book “Cowboys Are My Weakness.” Deep Creek is a memoir filled with the love of mother earth, her animals, and humanity. It can be hard to feel like we are part of a community when we have been in our homes since March, but once again our library comes to the rescue announcing One Book One Broomfield for 2020, and giving us the sense of the community we’ve been missing through the wonder of literature. like saying: 'another chapter.ughh'.In this year of everything being up in the air, it’s nice to have the comfort of something normal even if it’s handled a little differently than in years past. Be the solution, not part of the problem. If all people of the earth lived as her there would be no earth (with humans anyway). But I think miss Houston is a caricature in that sense. Our ideals are better than our actual behavior. yet from the summary: 'Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the Earth, the ranch most of all' Basically she travels by plane constantly. She goes on and on about the dangers that threaten the earth and more locally her ranch. I thought I was going to listen to a book from someone who makes a living on a ranch with all the problems and hard work that comes with it. In essays 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." Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston’s sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the Earth, the ranch most of all. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. A collection of essays about finding and maintaining ones place on our changing planet. 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. For many millennia, the Great Plains of North America was inhabited by nomadic Native Americans. "How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us."
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