Synopses & Reviews
"This is a book about a possible healing where we suffer devastation. Where else do we find such understanding and strength to face the double killings of our time?"--Kim Stafford
Overwhelmed after her intense years as an AIDS worker in San Francisco, Jan Zita Grover moved cross-country to Minnesota, hoping to find a place north enough to feel an escape. What she didn't expect to find is the reality of the devastated landscape that makes up the north woods--massive cut-overs, land that has been logged and used beyond any easily recognizable loveliness.
However, Grover's extraordinary imagination sees similarities between this ravished landscape and the ravished bodies of her dying friends. Refusing to sentimentalize, she nevertheless finds surprising consolation in loss. From landfills that have become prime wildlife feeding areas, to the unexpected joys of fly-fishing without a hook, Grover again bears witness to something she first began to articulate in San Francisco: the "difficult beauties of deformity."
Jan Zita Grover devides her time between northern Minnesota and Wisconsin and Minneapolis. She is a longtime contributor to the Women's Review of Books and an editor at Midwest Fly Fishing. North Enough is her first book.
Review
"This is a book about a possible healing where we suffer devastation. Where else do we find such understanding and strength to face the double killings of our time?"--Kim Stafford
Synopsis
"North Enough is deeply moving, beautifully written. (Grover) connects two seemingly unrelated themes: the ravages wreaked by AIDS and the devastation of Minnesota's north woods. It is the conclusions she draws that make this highly literate book fascinating reading. Grover's stunning prose draws the reader back again and again". -- Saint Paul Pioneer Press
Synopsis
"This is a book about a possible healing where we suffer devastation. Where else do we find such understanding and strength to face the double killings of our time?"--Kim Stafford
Overwhelmed after her intense years as an AIDS worker in San Francisco, Jan Zita Grover moved cross-country to Minnesota, hoping to find a place north enough to feel an escape. What she didn't expect to find is the reality of the devastated landscape that makes up the north woods--massive cut-overs, land that has been logged and used beyond any easily recognizable loveliness.
However, Grover's extraordinary imagination sees similarities between this ravished landscape and the ravished bodies of her dying friends. Refusing to sentimentalize, she nevertheless finds surprising consolation in loss. From landfills that have become prime wildlife feeding areas, to the unexpected joys of fly-fishing without a hook, Grover again bears witness to something she first began to articulate in San Francisco: the "difficult beauties of deformity."
Jan Zita Grover devides her time between northern Minnesota and Wisconsin and Minneapolis. She is a longtime contributor to the Women's Review of Books and an editor at Midwest Fly Fishing. North Enough is her first book.
Synopsis
Overwhelmed after her intense years as an AIDS worker in San Francisco, Jan Zita Grover moved cross-country to Minnesota, hoping to find a place north enough to feel an escape. What she didn't expect to find is the reality of the devastated landscape that makes up the north woods--massive cut-overs, land that has been logged and used beyond any easily recognizable loveliness.
However, Grover's extraordinary imagination sees similarities between this ravished landscape and the ravished bodies of her dying friends. Refusing to sentimentalize, she nevertheless finds surprising consolation in loss. From landfills that have become prime wildlife feeding areas, to the unexpected joys of fly-fishing without a hook, Grover again bears witness to something she first began to articulate in San Francisco: the "difficult beauties of deformity."
About the Author
Jan Zita Grover devides her time between northern Minnesota and Wisconsin and Minneapolis. She is a longtime contributor to the
Women's Review of Books and an editor at
Midwest Fly Fishing.
North Enough is her first book.