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These essays explore the challenges Jeffe Kennedy has faced as a woman, a Westerner, a father-less daughter, a stepmother, a biologist, and a girl with hair of no specific color. From the book's opening in a cornfield, where Kennedy is searching for the twenty-five-year-old site of the plane crash that killed her father, she seems to be in constant motion. She is the feminist adolescent, ashamed to win a prize in home economics who learns to take joy in her pastry skills. She is the scientist struggling with mortality, the liberal learning to shoot a gun.
"With cheeky wisdom, Jeffe Kennedy explores the extraordinary moments that transform ordinary lives. No revelation—from the meaning of the death of a parent to being a blonde—is too big or small for this Colorado-born biologist to dissect. Her insights tell us a lot about the way lives enhanced by real convictions are formed."—Vicki Lindner, author of Outlaw Games
"[Kennedy] writes vividly and with great clarity. Her sensitivity and empathy for other people enhances an unusually authentic ability to establish three-dimensional characterization."—Lee Gutkind, editor, Creative Nonfiction
| Inheritances | 1 | |
| Portraits | 13 | |
| Appliances | 27 | |
| Girlfriends | 43 | |
| Home Ec | 61 | |
| How I Became a Blonde | 69 | |
| The Remaking of Painted Creek | 75 | |
| Wind over the Face of Waters | 85 | |
| Of Swallows, Snakes, and Science | 91 | |
| Wyoming Trucks, True Love, and the Weather Channel | 101 | |
| Thanksgiving | 111 | |
| Bullets | 125 | |
| A Report from Driver #3 | 135 | |
| Flying Home | 147 | |
| Ground Blizzards | 159 |
Anonymous
Posted June 22, 2004
I enjoyed this book very much. Ms. Kennedy is a great story teller. She takes anecdotes about regular, real world life events and fills them with a sense of wonder and fascination and you somehow come out the other side with a little more knowledge about yourself. At the end of the book, I found myself craving more. I look forward to Ms. Kennedy's future works.
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Overview
These essays explore the challenges Jeffe Kennedy has faced as a woman, a Westerner, a father-less daughter, a stepmother, a biologist, and a girl with hair of no specific color. From the book's opening in a cornfield, where Kennedy is searching for the twenty-five-year-old site of the plane crash that killed her father, she seems to be in constant motion. She is the feminist adolescent, ashamed to win a prize in home economics who learns to take joy in her pastry skills. She is the scientist struggling with ...