An Owl on Every Post, Sanora Babb
An Owl on Every Post, Sanora Babb
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An Owl on Every Post

Author: Sanora Babb

Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan

Unabridged: 8 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/02/2014


Synopsis

Sanora Babb experienced pioneer life in a one-room dugout, eye-level with the land that supported, tormented and beguiled her; where her family fought for their lives against drought, crop-failure, starvation, and almost unfathomless loneliness. Learning to read from newspapers that lined the dugout' s dirt walls, she grew up to be a journalist, then a writer of unforgettable books about the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, most notably Whose Names Are Unknown. The author was seven when her parents began to homestead an isolated 320-acre farm on the western plains. She tells the story through her eyes as a sensitive, fearless young girl who came to love the wind, the vastness, the mystery and magic in the ordinary. This evocative memoir of a pioneer childhood on the Great Plains is written with the lyricism and sensitivity that distinguishes all of Sanora Babb' s writing. An Owl on Every Post, with its environmental disasters, extreme weather, mortgage foreclosures, and harsh living conditions, resonates as much today as when it first appeared. What this true story of Sanora' s prairie childhood reveals best are the values-- courage, pride, determination, and love-- that allowed her

Reviews

Goodreads review by Soubhi on January 06, 2017

I enjoyed this memoir of a young girl brought up on the Colorado prairie. In this modern world, I think it's hard for most people to imagine a life so dependent on nature's whims.......more

Goodreads review by Silvia Amalia on November 11, 2024

«Long ago in “Owl Country” when I was seven or eight, one evening at dusk I was standing in the bare yard, looking over the great distance to the horizon, as I often did, wondering, dreaming. I recall thinking: one day I will lift up the sky and go into the world and wander all over that world.» Un m......more