In This We Are Native : On Going Away and Coming Home

by Annick Smith

• ISBN13: 9781592283323
• ISBN10: 1592283322
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: The Lyons Press

Summary

A vibrant memoir of love and loss and rebirth.

Author Biography

Annick Smith is a writer of essays and short fiction whose film-producer
credits include A River Runs Through It. She writes for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Audubon, Modern Maturity, Outside, and Travel & Leisure, and is the author of Homestead, and was coeditor with William Kittredge of The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology. Born in Paris, raised in Chicago, Smith has lived for thirty years on her homestead ranch in Montana.

Table of Contents

Part 1
Anticipating Loss	3	(19)
In This We Are Native	22	(27)
To Die in Tijuana	49	(21)
The Widow Woman	70	(23)
Part 2
Sink or Swim	93	(5)
Wildcats I Have Not Known	98	(9)
Gleaning Wild Gardens	107	(15)
Three Ways of Walking the Blackfoot	122	(10)
The Best Last Place	132	(7)
Part 3
The Whales Are Singing	139	(10)
Summering Ground	149	(11)
Palo Duro Canyon	160	(4)
Falling into the Canyon	164	(11)
Part 4
Big Bluestem	175	(52)
Part 5
Pablo Neruda's House in the Sand	227	(14)
Titicaca, Rock of the Mountain Cat	241	(14)
Margitsziget, Where It All Began	255	(16)
I Am Not Thinking	271	(30)
Thanksgiving	301