num_pages: 160
description: Ivan Doig grew up with only a vague memory of his mother, Berneta, who died on his sixth birthday. Then he discovered a cache of her letters--and through them, a spunky, passionate, can-do woman as at home in the saddle as behind a sewing machine, and as in love with language as Doig would prove to be. In this moving prequel to his acclaimed memoir This House of Sky , Doig brings to life his childhood before his mother's death and the family's journey from the Montana mountains to the Arizona desert and back again. He eloquently captures the texture of the American West during and after World War II, the fortune of a family, and one woman's indomitable spirit.
language: English
title: Heart Earth
titlecomplete: Heart Earth
genres: Autobiography, History, World War II, Biography Memoir, Family, War, Biography, Westerns, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 889
places: Arizona, Montana
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Evans Biography Award
publisher: Mariner Books