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On the day of her high school graduation, the author decided she could no longer abide the patriarchal domination of family and church. After a disagreement with her father, she gathered her few belongings and struck out on her own. Here, she tells a classic story of her search for knowledge and its consequences.

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Winner of the 1995 PEN/Jerard Fund Award, "In the Wilderness" is poet Kim Barnes' account of her journey toward adulthood, set against an interior landscape as awesome, as wondrous, and as fraught with hidden peril as the isolated northern Idaho logging camps where she grew up.