Home
Chronicle of a North Country Life
Home is like a leaf on a tree: other people, other homes, are the other leaves. They live beneath the same sky, share the same memories, survive the same storms.
But one leaf is a solitude.
After twenty-five years on a New Brunswick farm, award-winning Canadian author Beth Powning came to understand the land she calls home. Now, almost twenty years after the initial publication of Home, readers may once again experience the spirit of home in nature in this new edition of her seminal book.
Time has made the subtle messages beyond her door become clearer, if not less mysterious: the glorious rawness of winter storms, the effortless dominance of oak trees, the distinctive poetry of night, the universes found within a humble garden.
Placing herself in the dual roles of explorer and storyteller, Powning waltzes the unspoken divide between the untamed and the domestic, revelling in the complex bonds that exist between the natural world and those who would seek to navigate its wonders.
Originally released in Canada as Seeds of Another Summer, this new edition, which includes a new introduction and gorgeous reproductions of Powning's sumptuous nature photography, will inspire those who seek a simpler life and enchant those who are already there.
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"Beth's sense of home is not of a static dwelling, but of a place of seasons, cycles, and lifespans, or experiences and memories. This is a book for your soul." — Telegraph-Journal
"Powning takes her camera, her pen and, most important, her spirit into the landscape. . . . The delicate, often beautiful photographs combine with a quietly spirited naturalistic prose in an Annie Dillard-Henry David Thoreau mode to produce a work evocative in both sensual and domestic ways." — The Globe and Mail
"Beth Powning's beautiful celebration of natural life is meet and proper for these unnatural times. I think it will be read for years to come." — E.L. Doctorow
Beth Powning lives in New Brunswick, Canada. She is the author of four novels and three books of literary non-fiction, as well as articles, essays, and blog posts. A full-time writer, she gives presentations, sings in a chorus, serves on boards and committees, makes baskets, and tends gardens. Her last novel, The Sister’s Tale, was an immediate Canadian bestseller, hitting #3 on both The Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail bestsellers lists. It also won the 2022 New Brunswick Book Award for fiction, which called it “a meticulously rendered imagining of one household at a pivotal point in the province’s social and legal evolution. Balanced and precise, the prose ushers the reader into a bygone world that couldn’t feel more current or more urgent.”
