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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Menkedick, Sarah, author.     Subjects     Menkedick, Sarah -- Family.     Motherhood.     Families.     Country life -- Ohio.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Menkedick, Sarah, author.       by title:      Homing instincts : e...         MARC Display

Homing instincts : early motherhood on a Midwestern farm / Sarah Menkedick. by Menkedick, Sarah, author. New York : Pantheon Books, c2017. Subjects Menkedick, Sarah -- Family.   Motherhood.   Families.   Country life -- Ohio. ISBN:  9781101871416 (hbk.) : 1101871415 (hbk.) Description:  255 pages ; 21 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Homing instincts -- Journey into the ordinary -- Motherland -- A wilderness of waiting -- Mildred, Millie, Grandma Menkedick -- Open -- the milk cave -- The lake. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Sarah Menkedick spent her twenties trekking alone across South America, teaching English to recalcitrant teenagers on Reunion Island, picking grapes in France and camping on the Mongolian grasslands; for her, meaning and purpose were to be found on the road, in flight from the ordinary. Yet the biggest and most transformative adventure of her life might be one she never anticipated: at 31, she moves into a tiny 19th-century cabin on her family's Ohio farm, and begins the journey into motherhood. In eight vivid and boldly questioning essays, Menkedick explores the luminous, disorienting time just before and after becoming a mother. As she reacquaints herself with the subtle landscapes of the Midwest, and adjusts to the often surprising physicality of pregnancy, she ruminates on what this new stage of life means for her long-held concepts of self, settling, and creative fulfillment. In "Millie, Mildred, Grandma Menkedick," she considers the nature of story through the life of her tough German grandmother, who raised two boys as a single mother in the 1950s and then spent her seventies traveling the world with her best friend Marge; in "Motherland," on a trip back to Oaxaca, Mexico to visit her husband's family, she finally embraces her Midwestern roots; in "The Milk Cave," she discovers in breastfeeding a new appreciation for the spiritual and artistic potential of boredom; and in "The Lake," she revisits her childhood with her father, whose relentless optimism and mystical streak she sees anew once she has a child of her own."--Dust jacket.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 306.8743 Menkedick Me Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.8743 Menkedick Me Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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