Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs
A True Story of Bad Breaks and Small Miracles
$35.20
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
19 April 2011
Summary
The Boston Globe called it “real, good old-fashioned American values coming from small-town Alaska.”
The Alaskan landscape, so vast, dramatic, and unbelievable, may be the reason the people in Haines, Alaska (population 2,400), so often discuss the meaning of life. Heather Lende thinks it helps make life mean more. Since her bestselling first book, If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name, a near-fatal bicycle accident has given Lende a few more reasons to consider matters both …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781616200510 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1616200510 |
| Author: | Heather Lende |
| Publisher: | Workman Publishing |
| Imprint: | Algonquin Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 19 April 2011 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 138mm x 208mm |
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Critics Review
The book is full of vivid characters … [Lende] has a simple, chatty style most readers will find oddly comforting. Life does, in fact, go on. Los Angeles Times
“Here is the real thing - good old-fashioned American values coming from small-town Alaska. In a cozy chatty voice, Heather Lende tells stories of life in Haines, Alaska … Accepting life and rejoicing in the world are her preferred modes of thinking and feeling. She quotes with approval from Emerson, ‘the proper response to the world is applause.’ ” –Boston Globe
–Boston Globe
“Lende has a knack for subtly illuminating the remarkable in the commonplace, the transcendence in tragedy … Her voice, which alternates between folksy and formal, playful and prayerful, entertaining and elegiac, is reminiscent of Garrison Keillor, Krista Tippett, Tom Bodett, Kathleen Norris and Anne Lamott.” –Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Lende writes emotionally, but never sentimentally, giving us the best Alaska memoir of late, maybe the best ever.” –Booklist, starred review
–Booklist
“The book is full of vivid characters (a librarian who collects overdue books in person) and strange, sad deaths. Lende is not one for looking back. She has a simple, chatty style most readers will find oddly comforting. Life does, in fact, go on.” –Los Angeles Times
–Los Angeles Times
“Here is the real thing – good old-fashioned American values coming from small-town Alaska.” –The Boston Globe
“Lende writes emotionally but never sentimentally, giving us the best Alaska memoir of late, maybe the best ever.” –Booklist (starred review)
“The book is full of vivid characters … [Lende] has a simple, chatty style most readers will find oddly comforting. Life does, in fact, go on.” –Los Angeles Times
Heather Lende
Heather Lende has contributed essays and commentary to NPR, the New York Times, and National Geographic Traveler, among other newspapers and magazines. She is a former contributing editor at Woman’s Day and a columnist for the Alaska Dispatch News.
Lende is the obituary writer for the Chilkat Valley News in Haines and the recipient of the Suzan Nightingale McKay Best Columnist Award from the Alaska Press Club. Her previous bestselling books include Find the Good, Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs, and If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name.
In 2004, Lende was voted Citizen of the Year by the Haines Chamber of Commerce.
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