![]() I finally realized I could be the cowboy.”ĭeep Creek reveals more than I knew before about Houston’s upbringing, about the uncertainties of her childhood and the insecurities of her youth. There, Houston ultimately understood that she could make her own life. Its subtitle, “Finding Hope in the High Country,” characterizes what ensued after she bought “120 acres of tall grass and blue sage” with sweeping views of the Colorado Rockies. Deep Creek describes Houston’s love affair, not with a man or with stereotypes of men but with the mountain West. Five books and more than twenty-five years later, in her latest collection of essays, Houston stamps a coda on her Cowboys thesis. When I first read Pam Houston’s acerbic collection of short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness, I recognized a writer who would have a long and successful career musing creatively about life and love. ![]()
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