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The Summer of Ordinary Ways, October 2005
Hardcover

THE SUMMER OF ORDINARY WAYS
By: Nicole Lea Helget

?Written with blistering beauty, this fierce memoir is an elegy for broken spirits?human and animal?and a prayer for those able to face their past. ? Bart Schneider

Borealis Books
October 2005
192 pages
ISBN: 0873515439
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir

“Helget breaks open the tough shell of family life to reveal a girlhood both tragic and lovely, with all its hidden violence, all its secret beauty.”—Carolyn Parkhurst, author of The Dogs of Babel

Practicing baseball with Dad, then watching him go after a cow with a pitchfork in a fit of rage. Playing chicken on the county road with semi trucks full of hogs. Flirting with the milkman. Chasing with your sisters after Wreck and Bump, mangy mutts who prowl farmsteads killing chickens and drinking fuel oil. Dandelion wine. The ghost of a girl buried alive over a century ago. These unforgettable, sometimes hilarious images spill from a fierce and wondrous childhood into the pages of The Summer of Ordinary Ways.

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Fresh Air - NPR - October 19, 2005