“Trespass” is McHarg’s memoir, following her as she scurries to the outskirts of her Utah homeland. She grew up an insider, a sixth generation Mormon rancher, but finds herself at odds with the predominant culture as she becomes an environmental advocate. As McHarg processes her father’s suicide, she finds herself pushed both figuratively outside the church’s reach and physically outside the Deseret boundaries, in Norwood. It was here, away from the onus of her Utah roots that she was able to finish the book.
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, has won the Colorado Book Award for creative nonfiction. Last year it won the 2008 Orion Book Award and earlier this year it won the Ellen Meloy Fund’s 2009 Desert Writer’s Award.
Norwood novelist wins Colorado Book Award
Amy Irvine McHarg’s ‘Trespass’ honored again
By D. Dion
Norwood CO Post, July 1, 2009.
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