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Автор: Schmidt Susan
Название: Song of Moving Water
ISBN: 9780986383519
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0986383511
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 204
Вес: 0.30 кг.
Дата издания: 10.02.2015
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 12
Поставляется из: США
Описание: As paddler, flyfisher, bass fiddler, gardener, and Quaker naturalist- SUSAN SCHMIDT writes about river and forest ecology, bluegrass music, square dancing, chestnut trees, quilting, endangered species, local food, and environmental organizing in her new young-adult novel, Song of Moving Water. She has worked as science-policy analyst, sailboat captain, and professor of literature and environmental decision-making. Susan now edits books, with the same mindfulness as pruning apple trees, and walks beaches with her Boykin Spaniel. Her new book of poems is Salt Runs in My Blood. Dont blame yourself for other peoples decisions, Aunt Ruby tells Grace. At seventeen, Grace feels guilty that her father drowned in the river when she was ten. Just when she has moved back home, the power company proposes a dam that will flood her family farm. She builds confidence to raise her voice. With a backdrop of the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia, Song of Moving Water is a young womans coming-of-age story and a fictional environmental impact statement. When Grace returns to her fathers homeplace seven years after his death, a proposed hydroelectric dam threatens the remote valley. Learning about farming and faith from her Aunt Ruby and about foraging herbs from neighbor Amos, Grace begins to value the self-sufficient community in contrast to her mothers social whirl in Richmond. In the country, Grace goes to a square dance at the elementary school; in the city, she goes to a debutante party at the Country Club. Grace plans on college, but her childhood friend Sally Bee is already married with two babies. Grace has a crush on Sam, aquatic ecologist and Quaker pacifist who is looking for an endangered species to stop the dam. While canoeing with Sam, Grace learns how to read a river and the Tao of water. In contrast to Sam, Graces stepbrother Jared is a vain business student who slaps her in a political argument. With comic rivals, Amos and Farley, the half-Indian/half-Black musician up the creek, Grace goes to the Galax Fiddle Festival, and Farley competes in the fiddle contest. Reclaiming her mountain heritage, Grace organizes neighbors to celebrate their river, and she sings to protest the dam that may flood her family farm. When she skinnydips in a mountain pool, Grace accepts her growing maturity and forgives her own gracelessness. Walking the woods, Amos shows Grace the flowering shrub, Hearts-a-Busting, to remind her to keep her heart open. Susan Schmidt writes Song of Moving Water with the insight of a scientist, the imagery of a poet, and the big heart of one who loves the Appalachian highlands and their people. Poised on the cusp of adulthood, Grace comes back to McDowell County to learn what no classroom can teach: family secrets, spiritual knowledge, sexual stirrings-all against the backdrop of a newborn environmental movement. Groundtruthing, she calls it-ways of knowing the land-from a mountain mans gift for hunting ginseng... to a womans skill at putting by food... to a scrappy Quaker ecologists understanding of the webs of life. This closely observed novel takes you deep into the embrace of the mountains. Valerie Nieman, author of Blood Clay and Neena Gathering

Song of Moving Water, Schmidt Susan