Description: "This book is the result of my meeting Virginia Brautigan Aste and sitting down and interviewing her over the course of six years. Our conversations continued as we built a friendship at our teaching jobs at a small school in Pahoa, Hawaii and by meeting for breakfast at the local cafe. What is in this book are essays, photographs, and Virginia's story. Her narrative highlights her years growing up in California and then her adventures before, during, and after being married to Richard Brautigan. Widowhood did not stop her from pursuing her own dreams and direction and we see how her survival became her life path in ways which added to the lives of others."--Publisher's description.
Brief description: Susan Kay Anderson was born in Wichita. She grew up in Nome, Schurz, Reno, Missoula, Germany, and other places. Anderson's book of poems is Mezzanine. She lives near Kalapuya Creek, part of the Umpqua River Basin in southwestern Oregon.