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Author Kuipers, Dean, author.

Title The deer camp : a memoir of a father, a family, and the land that healed them / Dean Kuipers.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
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 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  B KUIPERS    Check Shelf
Description xv, 286 pages ; 25 cm
Summary "For readers of The Stranger in the Woods and H Is for Hawk, a beautifully written and emotionally rewarding memoir about a father, his three sons, and a scrappy 100-acre piece of land in rural Michigan. Bruce Kuipers was good at hunting and fishing, but not at anything else that makes a real father or husband. Distant, angry, and a serial cheater, he destroyed his relationship with his wife, Nancy, and alienated his three sons--journalist Dean, woodsman Brett, and troubled yet brilliant fisherman Joe. He distrusted people and clung to rural America as a place to hide. So when Bruce purchased a 100-acre hunting property as a way to reconnect with his sons, they resisted. The land was the perfect bait, but the moment the sons arrived, none of them knew how to be together as a family. Conflicts arose over whether the land--an old farm that had been degraded and reduced to a few stands of pine and blowing sand--should be left alone or be actively restored. After a decade-long impasse, Bruce acquiesced, and his sons proceeded with their restoration plan. What happened next was a miracle of nature. Dean Kuipers weaves a beautiful and surprising story about the restorative power of land and of his own family, which so desperately needed healing. Heartwarming and profound, The Deer Camp is the perfect story of fathers, sons, and the beauty and magic of the natural world"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents The deer camp -- Hello, Winter Maker -- The big chair -- The darkness -- A boat -- Muskrat Island -- God in the many -- Animal talk -- Back to the cabin -- First plantings -- The other Kuipers -- Does sand dream of trees? -- Sends a deer -- Trails End Motel.
Subject Kuipers, Dean.
Kuipers, Dean -- Family.
Fathers and sons -- Michigan -- Oceana County -- Biography.
Deer hunting -- Michigan -- Oceana County.
Country life -- Michigan -- Oceana County.
Farms -- Conservation and restoration -- Michigan -- Oceana County.
Oceana County (Mich.) -- Biography.
Country life. (OCoLC)fst00881405
Deer hunting. (OCoLC)fst00889548
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Fathers and sons. (OCoLC)fst00921899
Michigan -- Oceana County. (OCoLC)fst01214750
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Online version: Kuipers, Dean, author. Deer camp New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019 9781635573497 (DLC) 2019002700
ISBN 9781635573480 (hardcover)
1635573483 (hardcover)
9781635573497 (electronic book)
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