Author Description

Remembered Earth is a modern-day retelling of the Wizard of Oz, with the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Lion replaced by characters Jon, Harlan, Sam, and Grady. There is a remembered earth inside each of us-a great untraveled country-with dry rivers and thirsty soil, flint hills, and windmills drawing deep. This book seeks to map that vast terrain. It is the story of a young woman trying to manifest her own authentic life. And yet it is larger than this. It is about farmers and the land and the fate of America. It is about savoring the fragile sweetness of life in the face of what death takes. And it is about the irresistible authority of love in determining the arc of human lives.