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Beth Powning is the author of Home: Chronicle of a North Country Life, and Shadow Child: An Apprenticeship in Love and Loss. Born in Connecticut, she now lives in Sussex, New Brunswick.
Praise for The Hatbox Letters
"Powning brilliantly illuminates grief in all its shape-shifting pain, and in so doing, expands her characters' lives, and ours...a deeply beautiful book...an extraordinary achievement."
- The Globe and Mail
"Tender and lush. . . . Powning writes about grief with uncanny precision; she gets all its ambushes and piercing aches exactly right."
- National Post
"Powning's subject here is no less than the relationship of life and death, and she engages it with rigor and grace."
- Quill & Quire
Praise for Home: Chronicle of a North Country Life
"A beautiful celebration of natural life. . . . "
- E. L. Doctorow
"In a world increasingly cynical and numb, Powning puts a light in the window for us all. . . . " - Chicago Tribune
"Powning combines an extraordinary understanding and sense of place with an affinity for the world of nature...this book imparts a feeling of serenity; Annie Dillard fans will enjoy it."
- Publishers Weekly
"An eloquent celebration of the rural lifestyle and a joy to experience."
- The Bloomsbury Review
"Powning's choice of language and the rhythm of her prose wondrously evoke the idea of living within a natural setting. . . ."
- San Francisco Book Review
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