At the Corner of Past and Future: A Collection of Life Stories - Softcover

Joern, Pamela Carter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1496242785 ISBN 13: 9781496242785

Publisher: Bison Books, 2025

Synopsis

With keen observation and deep reflection, Pamela Carter Joern probes her life. No topic is too small or too sacred, from gutting chickens to Gaudí’s cathedral. Through a range of experiences—growing up in rural Nebraska, raising children, surviving cancer, becoming a writer—she explores the tenuous link between memory and truth. Joern displays a gift for mining wisdom through surprising connections, juxtaposing her father’s life to the discoveries of Isaac Newton or the writer’s task to the ancient art of alchemy. She weds philosophical insight and spiritual imagination and laces this amalgam with candor and wit, resulting in a work that is engaging, intimate, and illuminating.

About this title

About the Author

Pamela Carter Joern is the author of four works of fiction: Toby’s Last Resort, In Reach, The Plain Sense of Things, and The Floor of the Sky, all published by the University of Nebraska Press. She has written six plays that have been produced in the Twin Cities of Minnesota and taught writing at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis for ten years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bison Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1496242785
• ISBN 13: 9781496242785
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152