Bibliograph

Raised in ruins, a memoir by Tara Neilson

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Raised in ruins, a memoir by Tara Neilson

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Intended audience

1150L, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Raised in ruins

Oclc number

1130319392

Responsibility statement

a memoir by Tara Neilson

Summary

In the 1980s the Neilson family moved out to the remote site of a former cannery in Southeast Alaska that had burned to the ground before statehood. They were miles away from any neighbors, surrounded on all sides by wolves, bears and other wildlife, entering the world of subsistence living in an uninviting land of dangerous weather and storms; yet the Neilsons were able to make themselves a home where few others would have found possible. From a young age, Tara learned that anything was possible, so long as one can imagine it and then make it happen. The Alaska wilds required independence and self-sufficiency from the family, and in return it provided a natural landscape that inspired romantic passion and unlimited dreams. With endless forest on one side and the wide ocean on the other, Tara embraced the lonesomeness of the burned cannery ruins that she called home, and often wondered what it once was with its people inside, their stories, where they went, and what happened to them

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