Wyoming Trucks, True Love, and the Weather Channel: A Woman's Adventure

by Kennedy, Jeffe

• ISBN13: 9780826333698
• ISBN10: 0826333699
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

These essays explore the challenges Jeffe Kennedy has faced as a woman, a Westerner, a father-less daughter, a stepmother, a biologist, and a girl with hair of no specific colour. From the book's opening in a cornfield, where Kennedy is searching for the twenty-five-year-old site of the plane crash that killed her father, she seems to be in constant motion. She is the feminist adolescent, ashamed to win a prize in home economics who learns to take joy in her pastry skills. She is the scientist struggling with mortality, the liberal learning to shoot a gun.

Table of Contents

Inheritances	1	(12)
Portraits	13	(14)
Appliances	27	(16)
Girlfriends	43	(18)
Home Ec	61	(8)
How I Became a Blonde	69	(6)
The Remaking of Painted Creek	75	(10)
Wind over the Face of Waters	85	(6)
Of Swallows, Snakes, and Science	91	(10)
Wyoming Trucks, True Love, and the Weather Channel	101	(10)
Thanksgiving	111	(14)
Bullets	125	(10)
A Report from Driver #3	135	(12)
Flying Home	147	(12)
Ground Blizzards	159