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Barbara K. Richardson

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Dirt, books and vistas are some of my favorite things. I have delivered sailboats, sold puptents, herded sixth graders and planted hundreds of trees as a residential landscape designer, all in order to write.

My historical novel "Tributary" won the Utah Book Award in 2013 and was a WILLA Finalist in Fiction for 2012. It follows the life of one young woman in 1870s Utah, who dares resist communal salvation in order to find her own. Molly Gloss calls it "a remarkable odyssey of the American West." Peter Heller says, "Richardson is a new American voice worth listening to."

My novel "Guest House" brings together kids I have taught, cities I have loved, women I've admired and the ongoing motivation to see, honor and make good homes for neglected
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Average rating: 3.94 · 194 ratings · 64 reviews · 4 distinct works
Tributary

3.84 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
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Guest House

3.80 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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Dirt: A Love Story

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4.19 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions
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4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2015
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100+ Books in 2026: Jennifer D's 2010 List 51 162 Dec 18, 2010 12:08AM  
Historical Fictio...: Around the World Challenge (Aug 1 - Sept 30, 2012) - Report Points Here 118 238 Oct 03, 2012 06:53PM  
E.M. Forster
“Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer.”
E. M. Forster, Howards End

Emily Dickinson
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
Emily Dickinson

Thomas Merton
“We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.”
Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

Thomas Merton
“The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!”
Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

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Barbara Richardson Hi, Adrianna. I know you are busy! I did mail a copy to you on February 3. Hope it arrived.

Good luck with finals...
Barb


Adrianna Hi Barbara,

Did you mail me a copy of Guest House to review? I'm trying to make sure I tackle all the Goodreads' authors' books in the order that they were received, and for some reason, I don't have your book on my list. When you emailed me about I Smile Back, it jogged my memory! I apologize if you did, otherwise, ignore my comment if you didn't. I'm reading a lot of books at one time and going to college. So, I am keeping busy with a lot of work these days!


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