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My ruby slippers : the road back to Kansas / Tracy Seeley

By:

Seeley, Tracy

Material type: Text

TextSeries: American livesPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , c2011.Description: xix, 185 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780803230101

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 SEE

LOC classification:

CT275.S469 A3 2011

Contents:

Prelude -- Thresholds -- Going back -- The good land -- Amazing grace -- The known world -- Wichita vortex redux -- Widening the circle -- Kansas becomes me -- Sacred bundles, secret maps -- What the prairie teaches -- Coming home -- Matfield Green -- Coda, 2008.

Summary: Sure, there's no place like home - but what if you can't really pinpoint where home is? By the time she was nine, Tracy Seeley had lived in seven towns and thirteen different houses. Her father's dreams of movie stardom, stoked by a series of affairs, kept the family on edge, and on the move, until he up and left. Thirty years later, settled in what seems like a charmed life in San Francisco, a diagnosis of cancer And The betrayal of a lover shake Seeley to her roots - roots she is suddenly determined to search out. My Ruby Slippers tells the story of that search, The tale of a woman with an impassioned if vague sense of mission: To find the meaning of home.Seeley finds herself in a Kansas that defies memory, a place far more complex and elusive than the sum of its cultural myths. On back roads and in her many back years, Seeley also finds unexpected forgiveness for her errant father, and, In the face of mortality, a sense of what it means to be rooted in place, To dwell deeply in the only life we have.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	92 SEE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		058666

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-185).

Sure, there's no place like home - but what if you can't really pinpoint where home is? By the time she was nine, Tracy Seeley had lived in seven towns and thirteen different houses. Her father's dreams of movie stardom, stoked by a series of affairs, kept the family on edge, and on the move, until he up and left. Thirty years later, settled in what seems like a charmed life in San Francisco, a diagnosis of cancer And The betrayal of a lover shake Seeley to her roots - roots she is suddenly determined to search out. My Ruby Slippers tells the story of that search, The tale of a woman with an impassioned if vague sense of mission: To find the meaning of home.Seeley finds herself in a Kansas that defies memory, a place far more complex and elusive than the sum of its cultural myths. On back roads and in her many back years, Seeley also finds unexpected forgiveness for her errant father, and, In the face of mortality, a sense of what it means to be rooted in place, To dwell deeply in the only life we have.

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