A Million Fragile Bones
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A Million Fragile Bones by Connie May Fowler
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Environmental Studies. On April 20th, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon, a BP operated oil rig, exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven men died in the explosion. Before the well was capped, it spewed an estimated 210 million gallons of oil into the gulf. The spill directly impacted 68,000 miles of ocean, and oil washed ashore along the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.Connie May Fowler began that day as she had begun most days for the previous sixteen years, immersed in the natural world that was her home on Alligator Point on Florida's gulf coast, surrounded by dunes and water birds, watching dolphins play in the distance. Then began the nightmare from which she would not emerge for more than a year.
In her memoir, A MILLION FRAGILE BONES, she details the beauty and peace she found on Alligator Point after years of heartbreak and loss, and the devastation and upheaval that followed the oil spill. It is, at its heart, a love song to the natural world and a cry of anger and grief at its ruin for the sake of corporate profits.
Connie May Fowler grew up in St. Augustine, Florida, until her father died when she was only seven years old, leaving Connie, her sister Deidre, and their mother Lee in near poverty.They moved to Tampa, and as her mother struggled to make ends meet as a motel bookkeeper and maid, Connie sought refuge in books: I could be transported from the awful circumstances of my life by simply opening a book.And writing went hand in hand with reading.Writing to me was a kind of salvation.
While Connie attended the University of Tampa on a full scholarship, her mother, who had never really gotten over the loss of her husband, started drinking heavily and eventually died of cirrhosis.Connie, feeling lost, quit school and spent two years traveling through the United States and Mexico.She returned to Florida, where the provost of the University of Tampa spotted her working as a waitress and persuaded her to return to the university where she earned a B.A. in English.
Connie married Mika Fowler in 1987 and moved to Kansas, where she enrolled in graduate school at the University of Kansas.A professor there encouraged her to take a class in fiction writing.That suggestion turned everything around for me.The fiction professor treated me for the first time in my life as if I was truly a writer.With her, everything coalesced.Fiction suddenly made sense to me.Sugar Cage, Connie's critically acclaimed debut novel, began as a short story written to fulfill a writing assignment for a fiction workshop.It evolved into her graduate thesis and eventually into a novel.Critical praise continued with her next two novels, River of Hidden Dreams and Before Women Had Wings.
While Connie attended the University of Tampa on a full scholarship, her mother, who had never really gotten over the loss of her husband, started drinking heavily and eventually died of cirrhosis.Connie, feeling lost, quit school and spent two years traveling through the United States and Mexico.She returned to Florida, where the provost of the University of Tampa spotted her working as a waitress and persuaded her to return to the university where she earned a B.A. in English.
Connie married Mika Fowler in 1987 and moved to Kansas, where she enrolled in graduate school at the University of Kansas.A professor there encouraged her to take a class in fiction writing.That suggestion turned everything around for me.The fiction professor treated me for the first time in my life as if I was truly a writer.With her, everything coalesced.Fiction suddenly made sense to me.Sugar Cage, Connie's critically acclaimed debut novel, began as a short story written to fulfill a writing assignment for a fiction workshop.It evolved into her graduate thesis and eventually into a novel.Critical praise continued with her next two novels, River of Hidden Dreams and Before Women Had Wings.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781940189208 |
| ISBN 10 | 1940189209 |
| Titel | A Million Fragile Bones |
| Autor | Connie May Fowler |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Twisted Road Publications |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2017-04-20 |
| Seitenanzahl | 320 |
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