A haunting, magnificently written memoir by Ivan Doig about growing up in the American West Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of Western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches.
A powerfully told story, This House of Sky is at once especially American and universal in its ability to awaken a longing for an explicable past..
What he deciphers from his past with piercing clarity is not only a raw sense of land and how it shapes us but also of the ties to our mothers and fathers, to those who love us, and our inextricable connection to those who shaped our values in our search for intimacy, independence, love, and family.
A haunting, magnificently written memoir by Ivan Doig about growing up in the American West Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of Western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches
