{"product_id":"grit-and-ghosts-following-the-trail-of-eight-tenacious-women-across-a-century-paperback-softback-9781496238467","title":"Grit and Ghosts; Following the Trail of Eight Tenacious Women Across a Century (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496238467","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGrit and Ghosts\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFollowing the Trail of Eight Tenacious Women Across a Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobin Foster (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496238467\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e230 pages, 17 photographs, 3 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.374 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\"Foster's subjects are interesting in their own right . . . and well worth reading about.\"-\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGrit and Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e looks outward and inward: at the marks its eight women have left on the world and the marks the world leaves on women who dream big. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this book illuminates stories that deserve to be told.”-Gwen Kirby, author of \u003ci\u003eShit Cassandra Saw: Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGrit and Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e is for anyone who presses against the boundaries of their lives. With impressive depth, Robin Foster uncovers amazing details about her subjects’ lives as she weaves together unforgettable stories of bravery, risk, and passion.”-Chelsea Hodson, author of \u003ci\u003eTonight I’m Someone Else\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Forging exhumations into persons and places, Robin Foster is an essayist who knows, truly, that only in going do we come to know. \u003ci\u003eGrit and Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautiful reliquary of deep mysterious springs and the souls they once homed.”-Jenny Boully, author of \u003ci\u003eBetwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life\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\"\u003eAs a student and teacher of history, Robin Foster is well aware that humans have persisted through major hardships as long as they have existed. When faced with the anxious dread many felt at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Foster began seeking stories of tenacious women of the American West who had survived their own hardships in a world that threw the unexpected at them. During one of the most uncertain periods of her life, Foster hit the road, embarking on a journey to find these determined women of the past and finding herself along the way. \u003ci\u003eGrit and Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e tells the stories of eight women who speak to a shared human experience of struggle, and the grit required to move through it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Landscape and memory become deeply intertwined throughout \u003ci\u003eGrit and Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e as Foster wanders through park ranger Marguerite Lindsley’s Yellowstone, through Mexican faith healer Teresa Urrea’s Sonoran Desert, and through author Gertrude Stein’s deeply altered Oakland. Part excavation, part resurrection, \u003ci\u003eGrit and Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e is permeated with the individual and collective memories of Foster and her subjects, like ghosts of history.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600286609688,"sku":"9781496238467","price":19.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/grit-and-ghosts-following-the-trail-of-eight-tenacious-women-across-a-century-paperback-softback-9781496238467","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}