Jan 2, 2010
In Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Kathleen Norris writes about the stark, scarcely populated landscapes of western North and South Dakota. Norris writes of a harsh and beautiful country, of small towns rich in immigrant traditions, of a Benedictine monastery as sacred as the grasslands surrounding it, and of her journey toward constructing a literary and spiritual life.
Dakota, a nonfiction work, is part autobiography, part religious meditation, and part social history. The book captures the specific character of the European American immigrants...
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