{"product_id":"at-the-corner-of-past-and-future-a-collection-of-life-stories-paperback-softback-9781496242785","title":"At the Corner of Past and Future; A Collection of Life Stories (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496242785","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAt the Corner of Past and Future\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Collection of Life Stories\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePamela Carter Joern (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496242785\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 June 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e152 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“The Nebraska voice of Pamela Carter Joern shines like the stars in the vast dome of her natal sky, at once lyrical and straightforward. With sharp observation, tenderness, and wry humor, her collected stories and essays carry us irresistibly from a three-year-old’s memory of a red couch by a window to wise and surprising meditations on mortality in a wider world. It’s a wonder and a gift.”-Gayla Marty, author of \u003ci\u003eMemory of Trees: A Daughter’s Story of a Family Farm\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Pamela Carter Joern delivers what I want from a well-crafted memoir in essays: emotional honesty, unstinting candor, lyrical writing, artful storytelling, attention to context, and a deep and fearless questioning of what she knows, or thinks she knows, about herself and her place in the world.”-Lisa Knopp, author of \u003ci\u003eWhat the River Carries\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Home\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Pamela Carter Joern shows us the big sky in this affective and eloquently written collection. The big sky of a Great Plains childhood. The big sky of flying leaps, finding meaning, and facing mortality. The big sky of Nebraska itself, a necessary landscape that pulls her home, holds her steady, and keeps letting her leave and return again. These heartrending essays about place, personhood, and the passage of time invite us to bask in all our big skies of troubled and ecstatic living.”-Barrie Jean Borich, author of \u003ci\u003eBody Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eApocalypse, Darling\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWith keen observation and deep reflection, Pamela Carter Joern probes her life. No topic is too small or too sacred, from gutting chickens to GaudÍ’s cathedral. Through a range of experiences-growing up in rural Nebraska, raising children, surviving cancer, becoming a writer-she explores the tenuous link between memory and truth. Joern displays a gift for mining wisdom through surprising connections, juxtaposing her father’s life to the discoveries of Isaac Newton or the writer’s task to the ancient art of alchemy. She weds philosophical insight and spiritual imagination and laces this amalgam with candor and wit, resulting in a work that is engaging, intimate, and illuminating.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part 1. INTERSECTIONS of TIME and PLACE \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1. Looking for Direction \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 2. Forest and Prairie \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 3. At the Corner of Past and Future \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 4. Standing in Lines \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 5. Comforter \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 6. Salvador DalÍ and Me \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part 2: INTERSECTIONS of MEMORY and TRUTH \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 7. My Earliest Memory \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 8. Memory Thefts and Transplants \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 9. In Pursuit of Magic \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 10. Dr. Silverman and the Kansas City A’s \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 11. My Mother, the Liar \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 12. Vaccines \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 13. Shards \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 14. Sky \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part 3: INTERSECTIONS of LIFE and ART \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 15. Carnal Appetites \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 16. Cathedrals and Cottonwoods \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 17. Egg Carton Art \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 18. God Is Not a tv Repairman \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 19. Because the Poet Died \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 20. Privilege \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 21. I Say Unicorns Are Real \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 22. Souls at White Heat \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 23. Fatigue \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 24. A Flying Leap \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 25. What Is the Meaning of This? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600288510232,"sku":"9781496242785","price":13.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/at-the-corner-of-past-and-future-a-collection-of-life-stories-paperback-softback-9781496242785","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}