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Ebook About Featured on LitHub. An extraordinary memoir of a woman’s unconventional childhood growing up in the Alaskan wilderness, on the grounds where the burned remains of a cannery once stood. In the 1980s the Neilson family moved out on a floathouse to the remote site of a former cannery in Southeast Alaska that had burned to the ground before statehood. They were miles away from any neighbors, surrounded on all sides by wolves, bears and other wildlife, entering the world of subsistence living in an uninviting land of dangerous weather and storms; yet the Neilsons were able to make themselves a home where few others would have found possible. Led by a jack-of-all-trades handyman for a father and a mother who was afraid of everything in the wilderness, Tara and her four siblings cleared the rough terrain to build atop the blackened, rusty ruins a new way of life that was completely their own. From a young age, Tara learned that anything was possible, so long as one can imagine it and then make it happen. When given her mother’s impractical design of a six-bedroom house, her father picked up his tools and crafted it into a reality. To reach the closest community, they built a wooden boat sixteen feet long for the perilous journey on the water. The Alaska wilds required independence and self-sufficiency from the family, and in return it provided a natural landscape that inspired romantic passion and unlimited dreams. With endless forest on one side and the wide ocean on the other, Tara embraced the lonesomeness of the burned cannery ruins that she called home, and often wondered what it once was with its people inside, their stories, where they went, and what happened to them. Beautifully poignant and completely original, Raised in Ruins escapes into the wilderness to discover a piece of Alaskan history wrapped in an incredible family adventure fueled by love, strength, hard work, endurance, and boundless imagination.Book Raised in Ruins: A Memoir Review :
This entire memoir was so poignant and powerful for me to read. I took a lot of time reading it as I didn't want to miss any of the adventures (or misadventures) the author and her family had during this period of time. It was poignant and powerful at the same time.The author portrays Alaska in a way that I have never read before. Part of my pleasure in reading this, I believe, was derived from the fact I have always wanted to travel there...Well, perhaps, not to this exact location in remote Southeast Alaska, but to see the flora and the fauna that is so expertly described.The following paragraph may be perceived as spoilers...so ignore if you wish.. I believe these parts of the memoir contribute greatly to the author's story...Just imagine five children in this remote location with their Mom being the sole caretaker during the week. Their Dad was away working and would return home for the weekends...most of the time. He is a veteran of Viet Nam. and as one may imagine, suffers from Post Traumatic Stress. A workaholic by nature, he provides for his family and is to be commended for his battle against this unseen disease. Mom, suffers from depression and at times is drawn into her comfort zone.The reader will be transposed by a collection of anecdotes which cover a myriad of subjects. Schooling, the ever present danger of powerful storms, the quietness of being surrounded by the forest...And, then the harshness of the exact same forces... Bears and wolves to name a couple....The sounds of nature signify impending danger at its fullest. Mom's bear drill comes to mind as I write this..Each of the five children have different personalities and the author has delved deeply into each one of them.. I could only imagine the gleeful anticipation of the school supplies arriving in the boxes...What a treat for all of them.As I was reading, I kept thinking about the skill sets that are needed to survive in such a hostile environment. Unfathomable to try and list all as your life depends on so many of them.. The basic needs of life are dependent on so many factors. Even basic first aid becomes a problem if one is not prepared. The hierarchy of needs comes to mind...Just an outstanding memoir and loved it in its entirety. Anxiously awaiting the next book this author writes.And, please thank your Dad for his service to our country during Viet Nam..Most highly recommended. A truly fascinating read for me... Outstanding!Raised in Ruins is Tara Neilson’s memoir of growing up, and continuing to live, in a difficult environment of a different sort. Her Mom and Dad (burnt out from the Vietnam War) move from Montana to Alaska and decide to homestead on a small peninsula, yards from an old burned out cannery. The site is on Union Bay, not to far from Meyers Chuck, and located on the mainland. To the east is the Coast Mountains which separate Alaska from Canada. By any stretch of the imagination it is as dangerous and remote a place to raise a family of five as anywhere, except perhaps on a glacier in Patagonia. Her Mom and Dad pulled it off, and we learn how they adapted and what it took to do so. Difficult environments can teach us how to adapt, hopefully in a good way.Tara is the hero of the story, but she has a cast of many others. I’m writing this review on Father’s day and so I single out her father who demonstrates above all else a perseverance that makes Churchill’s phrase “never, never, never give up” a kindergarten phrase. He’s driven to care for his family that he and his wife raise on Union Bay. We learn that he is devoted through action, not oratory. He’s also, a kind man, but that’s something the author reveals only toward the end of the memoir. One of my favorite sections comes toward the end of the memoir: her father’s struggle to build a two story home, crafted from his own sawmill, and logs he masterfully cuts. (This chapter could easily have been expanded to rival House, by Tracy Kidder published in 1985. I wonder if her father devoured that book like I did.)I love a book that shows that as long as you don’t give up, and have other’s in your intentions, everything will work out. The exception: Having the harsh and rapid change in weather systems that Alaska routinely doles out that overtakes ones boat, float house, or life. In fact, is there one family that death hasn’t touched? A difficult environment that makes life's challenges so different from the challenges of difficult environments due to systemic racism, and other forms of social and political strife.What’s a float house you ask? You’ll learn all you need to know in Ms. Neilson’s memoir. And more. But you’ll also learn that not everyone is suited to this kind of difficult environment. We see anguish and sadness envelop Tara as her sister, Megan, her best friend of all, leaves for Florida to set up an art studio. (You can follow them both on Twitter.) One of my favorite quotes is by her sister: “I stood in front of it, and my whole childhood emerged in front of my eyes.” What was Megan looking at and where? Read the book.If I were to write this on Mother’s day I’d start with her Mom. A beautiful picture of woman not afraid of anything, except perhaps guns. And wolves, but not bears. Of interest is how she adapts to the environment, as well as the days when her husband, working at a mill across Union Bay, cannot get home, even for weekends. There’s a lot going on in this family of five children.Tara give us insight into her own learning style: “I learn by making connections, not by watching and then doing.” (I'm the opposite) What follows is insight for others: “Each person is reached by something else … we construct our perspectives of the work with different tools and materials. No wonder no two people see the same event the same way. No wonder there are so many misunderstandings and wars in the world.”This review could become quite lengthy, but let me end by pointing out my favorite photo. Tara, Megan and their older brother Jamie are proudly holding up a halibut that they caught themselves. But this wasn’t fishing like we think of fishing in the lower 48. 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