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Nobody's having a harder time coping than Will Trask, the son-in-law who grew up in a logging family in the neighboring timber town of Eden Mills. And did.
This is their story.
And ours.
Everything in this book actually happened, even the lovely, fateful coincidences.
Especially those........
A HEART FOR ANY FATE: WESTWARD TO OREGON 1845
Winner of the Oregon Book Award
Winner of the Willa Literary Award, named for Willa Cather and given by Women Writing the West.
"Engagingly written, A Heart for Any Fate belongs with the best historical fiction on the American West."--William G.
Robbins, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History, Oregon State University.
Family Trees: a Novel of the Northwest
Corvallis, Oregon, 2009.
We were married right here at Wake Robin Farm, where we still live all these years later. She was often on the road with her actor husband, Kevin Cooney, and had to write entirely by hand.
The economy is still in the tank from the Great Recession, and the Garlands, owners of the largest family-owned forest tracts in the county, are reeling from a series of devastating personal losses.
Long Time Passing
Against a backdrop of the 1960s, high school sophomore Kathy Shay wants to establish her own identity and connect her life with the turbulent world around her.
Someday I'll Laugh About This
Thirteen-year-old Shelby has always looked forward to vacations at the family's beach cabin, but this year, everything's different.
(Remember Kent State?) We had only recently met at Lewis & Clark College. Everything's wrong.
Living doll granddaughter! Can they get out in time? I wrote this long before I ever fell into the pit of addiction to prescribed drugs, the challenge of my life, but I could have been writing about us, surviving this ordeal together: We got here.
The loss of his wife, the cherished daughter of the Garland clan, has been a crushing blow, complicating his precarious family position.
Family Trees is a story of the ways in which people who are stuck find the means to break free and move on. Can they get out in time?
Our paths crossed twenty-nine years ago when our early books, And One for All and Children of the River, were reviewed together in the San Francisco Chronicle. She and her husband live in her hometown of Corvallis, Oregon, at Wake Robin Farm, where they were married under the oak trees forty-nine years ago.
Or all that we'd been through together.
Are you in earnest?
Seize this very minute!
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it!
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated
BEGIN, and then the work will be completed.
Goethe
Family Trees: a Novel of the Northwest
Corvallis, Oregon, 2009.
It examines the value as well as the limits of family ties, celebrating, above all, the courage it takes to recognize the power of the present moment, the power of now.
Once upon a time at Wake Robin Farm in Oregon, I was miraculously pregnant with our first child.
That same summer, on the Li River in Southern China, a pretty woman exactly my age was also expecting.
The economy is still in the tank from the Great Recession, and the Garlands, owners of the largest family-owned forest tracts in the county, are reeling from a series of devastating personal losses. Nobody's having a harder time coping than Will Trask, the son-in-law who grew up in a logging family in the neighboring timber town of Eden Mills. Everyone loves the trees, but Will, now a forestry consultant and real estate agent, faces a unique struggle in straddling the two worlds—those who own the forests and those who cut them down.
Although we've only actually been together a half dozen times over the years, her support and encouragement in writing and in life have meant the world to me. Reclining against my future husband that balmy May evening, gliding over the water, I think I already knew this guy was the one for me, even if he did officially have another girlfriend at the time.