Riverine
Subtitle: a memoir from anywhere but here
By: Angela Palm
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781555977467
Subjects: Floodplains; Families; Local History; Coming of age; Early memories; Homecoming; Childhood and youth; Biography; History
Description: The author explores her coming-of-age years and beyond in a rural town in Indiana, where, always feeling like an outsider, she experienced some of the most traumatic events of her life.

Palm grew up in an Demotte, Indiana where every year the Kankakee River flooded and returned to its old course while the residents sandbagged their homes against the rising water. From her bedroom window she watched the neighbor boy and loved him in secret, but felt escape was a continually receding hope. Now Palm finds herself drawn back, like the river, to her origins. And it means visiting the prison where the boy that she loved is serving a life sentence for a brutal murder.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Water; title: Map of home; title: An arsenal of sand; title: This movable state; title: DIY for the faithless; title: Part II. Fields; title: Bifurcation; title: Map of corn; title: The regulars; title: Dispatches from anywhere but here; title: The baddest men on the planet; title: Part III. Mountains; title: Iteration; title: On Robert Frost's lawn; title: Map of our hands; title: Life on the installment plan.