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Acclaim for Debra Marquart's memoir, The Horizontal World
The Sunday, July 30, issue of the New York Times Book Review features a review of Debra Marquart's recent memoir/biomythography, The Horizontal World: Growing up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere.
According to New York Times reviewer Julia Scheeres, Deb Marquart's "elegant, understated sentences are as fertile as freshly tilled rows of loam." Her memoir of growing up a farm girl in North Dakota studies her relationship to family and to place, and literally (and playfully) concludes with a modern retelling of the classic "farmer's daughter" story, though in Marquart's version "the punchline belongs to the cloistered daughter."
Despite her youthful ambivalence about the roles alloted to women in her small North Dakota town--teacher, housewife, nun--Marquart describes her book as "a long love song to my family and to the place where I grew up."
To read the New York Times review, see http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/books/review/30scheers.html
To read more about The Horizontal World, see http://www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/marquart0821.shtml and http://www.debramarquart.com
