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Jan 1, 2008 · Kim Barnes. 3.46. 522 ratings113 reviews. With her acclaimed memoir In the Wilderness Kim Barnes brought us to the great forests of Idaho, where geography and isolation shape love and family. Now, in her luminous new novel, she returns to this territory, offering a powerful tale of hope and idealism, faith and madness.
I am the author of three novels: Finding Caruso; A Country Called Home, winner of the 2009 PEN Center USA Literary Award in Fiction and named a Best Book of 2008 by The Washington Post, Kansas City Star, and The Oregonian (Northwest); and In the Kingdom of Men, a story set in 1960s Saudi Arabia, listed among the Best Books of 2012 by San Francis...
Mar 21, 2000 · Kim Barnes ended her widely-acclaimed 1996 memoir In the Wilderness at her high school graduation. Hungry for the World picks up where that left off with her period of young-adult rebellion against her parents' conservative lifestyle and Pentacostal faith.
Kim Barnes is the author of two memoirs and two previous novels, including A Country Called Home, which received the 2009 PEN Center USA Literary Award in fiction and was named a best book of 2008 by The Washington Post, the Kansas City Star, and The Oregonian.
Feb 17, 1997 · Kim Barnes begins her memoir, In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country, with a flashback to the woods where she began her life in an almost idyllic environment. Then she cuts to the alcoholism, poverty and abuse of her father’s mother’s childhood as context for the story to come.
In this interview conducted by Emily Cordo, Kim Barnes discusses the roles that trauma and archetype play in literary fiction and memoir. Certain stories, according to Barnes, are rooted in human experience at a fundamental, even genetic, level.
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Mar 20, 2001 · On the day of her 1976 high school graduation in Lewiston, Idaho, Kim Barnes decided she could no longer abide the patriarchal domination of family and church. After a disagreement with her father?a logger and fervent adherent to the Pentecostal Christian faith?she gathered her few belongings and struck out on her own.
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Kim Barnes is the author of In the Kingdom of Men, the story of a young American couple living in 1960s Saudi Arabia, as well as two memoirs and two previous novels, including A Country Called Home, which received the 2009 PEN Center USA Literary Award in Fiction and was named a best book of 2008 by The Washington Post, Kansas City Star, and ...
Sep 15, 2008 · Idaho author Kim Barnes. To Willa Cather’s Great Plains, Ivan Doig’s Montana, and Cormac McCarthy’s borderlands, you can add Kim Barnes’s Clearwater River. Barnes’s first three books ...
