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100	1		_aSeeley, Tracy
245	1	0	_aMy ruby slippers _b: the road back to Kansas _c/ Tracy Seeley
260			_aLincoln _b: University of Nebraska Press _c, c2011.
300			_axix, 185 p. _c; 22 cm.
490	0		_aAmerican lives
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-185).
505	0		_aPrelude -- 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.
520			_aSure, 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.
600	1	0	_aSeeley, Tracy
651			_aKansas _v--Biography
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