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The Cabin: A Tandem Memoir of Life in the Wild
Two perspectives, eleven years apart, on one profoundly affecting place, deep in the wilds of Southern Oregon.
Such is the basis for this dual account by Louise Ruddle Talbot and David Talbot, mother and son, on extended stays at the family's primitive cabin in the Rogue River wilderness. Half of the story is from the diary of Louise, a San Francisco urbanite convinced by her husband to move their family (including six-week-old David), from California's comforts to Oregon's rugged back country in 1933, to ride out the Great Depression. The balance of remembrances are David's, from the family's second cabin stay in 1944, when he was eleven.
Told in alternating chapters that parallel seasons separated by just over a decade, The Cabin is a story filled with counterpoint and confession, heart and humor, as two distinct voices share the ways we are forever changed by the places we call home.
Such is the basis for this dual account by Louise Ruddle Talbot and David Talbot, mother and son, on extended stays at the family's primitive cabin in the Rogue River wilderness. Half of the story is from the diary of Louise, a San Francisco urbanite convinced by her husband to move their family (including six-week-old David), from California's comforts to Oregon's rugged back country in 1933, to ride out the Great Depression. The balance of remembrances are David's, from the family's second cabin stay in 1944, when he was eleven.
Told in alternating chapters that parallel seasons separated by just over a decade, The Cabin is a story filled with counterpoint and confession, heart and humor, as two distinct voices share the ways we are forever changed by the places we call home.
116 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2013
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