Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir

✍ Scribed by Crozier, Lorna

• Book ID: 108947788
• Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 381 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781553653431

✦ Synopsis

Small Beneath the Sky is a tender, unsparing portrait of a family. It is also a book about place. Growing up in a small prairie city, where the local heroes were hockey players and curlers, Lorna Crozier never once dreamed of becoming a writer. Nonetheless, the grace, wisdom, and wit of her poetry have won her international acclaim. In this marvelous volume of recollections, she charts the geography that has shaped her character and her sense of home.

Crozier vividly depicts her hometown of Swift Current, with its one main street, its two high schools--the one on top of the hill was for the wealthy kids--and its three beer parlors, where her father spent most of his evenings. She captures crystal moments from her childhood--delivering newspapers with her brother in the blue-snow light of a winter morning, planting potatoes under a pale full moon, enjoying an illicit night swim in the town's public pool. She writes unflinchingly, too, about the grief and...