{"product_id":"9781504079358","title":"Songs of the Fluteplayer : Seasons of Life in the Southwest","description":"\u003cp\u003eFilled with \"honest\" writing and \"wise\" observations, \"Russell's well-written essays describe her life as an urban immigrant to the rural Southwest\" (Library Journal).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In 1981, newlywed Sharman Apt Russell moved with her husband to an agricultural valley in southwestern New Mexico, hoping to create a simpler life. From building their adobe house to the home-birth of their firstborn to growing their own food and navigating the seasonal flooding of the Mimbres River, these luminous essays chart Sharman's journey toward self-sufficiency in a land as mythical and remote as the image of the prehistoric fluteplayer found on the pottery in trading posts throughout the Southwest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Replete with wisdom and a reverence for the Native American people whose relics Sharman discovers everywhere on the land around her, this award-winning memoir pays tribute to the power and grace of nature, our deep connection to our prehistoric past, and the beauty of living in communion with the land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"A fine contribution to the literature of the modern American Southwest . . . [Russell] achieves just the right mix of fact and metaphor, humor and poetics.\" —Booklist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"These essays say much about the difficulty of maintaining an alternate lifestyle.\" —Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"A lovely little book. To be kept and read and read again.\" —Tony Hillerman, bestselling author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49633643790563,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/zh\/products\/9781504079358","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}