A chilling yet redemptive post-apocalyptic debut that examines community, motherhood, faith, and the importance of telling one’s own story.
Kaethe Schwehn’s first book, Tailings: A Memoir, won the 2015 Minnesota Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, and her chapbook of poems, Tanka & Me, was selected for the Mineral Point Chapbook Series. In addition to holding M.F.A.s from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of Montana, Kaethe has been the recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize, a Minnesota Arts Board grant, and a Loft Mentor Series award. She teaches at St. Olaf College and lives in Northfield, Minnesota.
Schwehn’s Tailings, is, like all of my favorite contemporary
nonfiction, uncategorizable--part memoir, part spiritual
reflection, part reportage. Brilliant in all of its guises,
Tailings only makes me want to read more by Kaethe Schwehn. She
writes with fierce intelligence and luminous clarity on all of her
subjects: loss, grace, this very particular village, and the hard
work of renewal. Tailings is a beautiful and original book by a
remarkable writer.
*Rene Steinke, author of FRIENDSWOOD, on TAILINGS*
Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual
and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely,
and filled with clear-eyed honesty and grace. Tailings is simply an
exquisite book.
*Dinty W. Moore, author of THE MINDFUL WRITER, on TAILINGS*
This is a book hard to lay aside. Schwehn's prose is liquid and
intelligent. It catches your interest immediately and swings you
from paragraph to paragraph and chapter to chapter. Her
observations never stand still but sweep you forward into her
story/memoir. She is a genuine artist.
*Walter Wangerin Jr., author of RAGMAN, on TAILINGS*
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