Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

At 31 years old, fresh off a tour promoting her first short story collection, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Pam Houston had “no job, no place to live except my North Face VE 24 tent.”

On an impulse and a good instinct, she spent her royalties on a 120-acre ranch near Creede, Colorado. It was more than she could afford, and required more maintenance than she could manage. And yet, twenty-five years later, it’s the piece of land that’s defined the largest part of her life. DEEP CREEK: FINDING HOPE IN THE HIGH COUNTRY tells the remarkable story of “that girl who dared herself to buy a ranch, dared herself to dig in and care for it, to work hard enough to pay for it, to figure out what other people meant when they used the world ‘home.”’

“There is so much beauty, wisdom, and truth in this book, I felt the pages almost humming in my hands. I was riveted and enlightened, inspired and consoled. This is a book for all of us, right now.”
—Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild

“Full of wisdom, wit, and loving attention, Pam Houston’s survey of her life and land should be required reading for anyone who loves this planet we call home.”
—Camille T. Dungy, author of Guidebook to Relative Strangers