[Lekooks] For Earthlovers & Booklovers: An Invitation

[Kim Suhr]

Hey Hey, My Kookie Friends!

Just want to let you know about an upcoming event at Books & Co. I have the pleasure of being conversation with the Wisconsin author Tamara Dean about her book of personal essays titled, Shelter and Storm. Tamara and her husband David "lived the dream" of buying a parcel of land in the Driftless area and living as gently with the land as they could. She shares their challenges and successes with insight and tenderness. I can't wait to meet her in person and hope you can join us...

Books & Co
May 15 @ 6:30
Free but they appreciate folks registering in advance if they can: https://booksco.com/event/2025-05-15/tamara-dean-conversation-kim-suhr

Here's more info about the book and Tamara...
About the book:
In the midst of the environmental crises of the early twenty-first century, Tamara Dean sought a way to live lightly on the planet. Her quest drew her to a landscape unlike any other: the Driftless area of Wisconsin, a region untouched by glaciers, marked by steep hills and deeply carved valleys, capped with forests and laced with cold, spring-fed streams. There, she confronted, in ways large and small, the challenges of meeting basic needs while facing the ravages of climate change--an experience at once soul-stirring and practical that she recounts in Shelter and Storm.

Dean's boundless curiosity and gift for storytelling imbue these essays with urgency and a sense of adventure. She invites readers to share in her discoveries while hunting for water, learning that a persistent weed could be food, or burning a hayfield to recreate a prairie. Contending with the fallout of fires, floods, and tornadoes, she offers responses to natural disasters that reflect the importance of community, now and for generations to come. Whether tracking down a rare, blue-glowing firefly, engineering a beaver-friendly waterway to appease a dying neighbor, or building a house of earthen blocks, Dean unites personal experience with science and history, presenting a perspective as informative as it is compelling.

Keenly attentive to the stakes for our planet's future--and the implications of extreme weather, shifting agricultural practices, and political divides--Shelter and Storm illuminates a thoughtful way forward for anyone concerned about climate change and its far-reaching consequences or for anyone searching, as Dean has, for a more sustainable way to live.

About the author:
Tamara Dean has been camping, fishing, hiking, and gathering wild foods from an early age, led and inspired by her parents. Her essays and stories have been published in The American Scholar, The Georgia Review, the Guardian, One Story, Orion, and The Progressive, and she is author of The Human-Powered Home: Choosing Muscles over Motors. She teaches writing independently and through writing centers across the nation.

 
Hope to see you there!

Kindly,

Kim


Kim Suhr (she)
kimsuhr at mac.com
602 Mt Snowdon Rd
Wales, WI 53183
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