Peculiar Lessons: How Nature and the Material World Shaped a Prairie Childhood
Lois Braun
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Part memoir, part social history, this collection of ten essays explores the various physical and natural elements that form the backdrop to Braun’s memories of growing up mid-20th century on a farm in southern Manitoba. From blackboard chalk to curling rocks, from mirages to straight-line winds, she reflects on her interactions with the elements as a child and how her responses influenced her evolution into adulthood.
Braun includes intriguing tidbits about the science and history behind each element as it pertains to life in her unique location on our planet. The book highlights the value and beauty of the simple components of our surroundings that we take for granted growing up, exposes their true complexity, and reveals how the fascination with a “simple” thing can become a lifelong pursuit that sustains one’s artistic and spiritual needs.
“Peculiar Lessons is the kind of book to read at leisure and to absorb slowly.” — Canada’s History
Shortlisted for the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction!
Click here to listen to Lois Braun read from Peculiar Lessons on CBC Manitoba.
Click here to read an interview with Lois Braun on page 10 of The Winkler Morden Voice.
Lois Braun
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