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The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere A wry, moving memoir about a family farm, a father, and a daughter, and why it’s so hard to go home again. Debra Marquart grew up on a family farm in rural North Dakota, on land her family had worked for generations. A wry memoir about a family farm, a father, and a daughter, and why it's so hard to go home again. Debra Marquart grew up on a family farm in rural North Dakota--on land her family had worked for generations. From the earliest age she knew she wanted out; surely life had more to offer than this unyielding daily grind, she bltadwin.ru Interaction Count:  · Debra Marquart wrote an engrossing memoir, a story of her life and her relationship with not only her family, but with the horizontal landscape of North Dakota. Her great-grandfather escaped conscription into the Russian military, immigrated to the States, and laid claim to the unforgiving land in the far reaches of America's north plains/5.

THE HORIZONTAL WORLD. Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere. By Debra Marquart. pp. Counterpoint. $ Most farmer's daughter jokes involve a cloistered nymphet and a traveling salesman. The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere. Debra Marquart was born to a North Dakota dairy farming family and she got away from the farm and the state just as soon as she could, ready or not. She is the youngest of three sisters and one brother and, in her own judgment, was pretty much a disappointment to her parents until. Marquart has published six books, including Small Buried Things: Poems, and The Horizontal World: Growing up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere, and she continues to perform with her jazz-poetry, rhythm blues project, The Bone People, with whom she has released two CDs: Orange Parade (folk/rock) and A Regular Dervish (jazz-poetry).

The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere. The Horizontal World. Overview. Debra Marquart grew up on a farm in rural North Dakota—on land her family had worked for generations. From the earliest age she knew she wanted out; surely life had more to offer than this unyielding daily grind, she thought. But she was never able to abandon it completely. " [A] rich memoir, set in North Dakota, about growing up on and escaping from a family farm for a future that held once unheard–of opportunities as a rock musician, poet, and English teacher.". Free revisions. Nobody is perfect, that’s why we cover your back with the possibility to ask for a revision. If The Horizontal World Growing Up Wild In The Middle Of Nowhere A Memoir|Debra Marquart you think the paper you have got from us could be better, tell us the reasons and we will revise and correct it.