Crafted with poignancy and honesty

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	• The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere: a Memoir Debra Marquart Counterpoint Press, 2006 - 270 pages average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Poetic sounding

This book sounds quite poetic in some chapters. I really enjoyed the last section of the book titled "signs and wonders" I do believe what the writer says in that part of the book. :) Quite a moving memoir..she credits various books that I now what to get a hold of to read as well.

Smart and Lovely

This book is simply lovely. Now that I'm done I find myself thinking of it, dwelling in it, savoring its sweetness. This is the very best kind of memoir, as I learned not just about Marquart's experience, but about the land and its history as well. Really, I learned about my history. I thought of my own father when I read of hers, wonder what earth and sky my own grandmothers worked to their graves. If I wrote a memoir, I'd like it to feel like this one, to leave the reader bronzed as this book has left me.

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Painfully honest

Recommended by a parishioner as a good first book to read during a period of time off, this memoir rings true and Debra Marquart is a real -- really real -- person. From the dramatic photograph on the jacket to Ms Marquart's family's assessment of North Dakotan Lawrence Welk's having "made it," from the impulse to bolt the past to the stronger impulse drawing one back again, I walked with the author almost every step of the way.

One of my favorite books

I heard the author being interviewed on NPR and thought "I want to meet this person - and I HAVE to read this book." I've recommended it to all my friends who went out and purchased it and also loved it. This is a GREAT book. She opens her soul to the reader in disarming and guileless ways.

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Crafted with poignancy and honesty

Like most of the other reviewers, I simply loved this book. The author has a wonderful sense of place and clear descriptions that made her story so compelling. I felt strong kinship to Ms. Marquart's background as a girl of German-Russian parents who had made their living farming. In my case, it was my grandparents who farmed and in California rather than North Dakota, but my German Mennonite mom instilled in me the importance of knowing where one's food came from and the hard work that went with this way of making a living. Thank you for writing about your life and family. I love your voice. By the way, actually the book's jacket captured my attention while browsing through the library. The photograph is perfectly suited to the book. Can't think of a better package.

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Debra Marquart grew up on a family farm in rural North Dakota--on land her family had worked for generations. From the earliest age she knew she wanted out; surely life had more to offer than this unyielding daily grind, she thought. But she was never able to abandon it completely.

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