The North Wind Knows My Name by Albert McLeod
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Overview: in Albert McLeod’s vibrant memoir, we see again that you can take the boy out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the boy. In 1956, at age seventeen, he leaves the primitive family farm on the frozen prairie of Manitoba for the bright lights of Winnipeg. In this intimate portrayal of his life, we journey along with him, ending up in his classroom, where he is a Professor at California State University Fresno, intrigued by Buddhism and trained in gestalt therapy and the theories of Carl Jung. In 1993 he finds his spiritual home at the Esalen Institute, which, like his life–like all our lives–balances on a precarious cliff, overlooking an ocean of possibilities.
McLeod describes with humor the art of milking, the sport of egg and snowball fights, and the madness of hockey, which, as he imagines it, is the root of all things Canadian. He writes about the baptism of his family into a Christian fundamentalist cult, full of shame and fear of hell fires. He feels the frozen winds of grief when he is only eight, at the death of his mother. He writes and weeps as he imagines the spiraling death of Alvin, trapped in a bomber over Germany. McLeod views his life as a holy roller coaster ride, with the ups and downs familiar to each of us.
Big skies, vast prairie horizons, and scintillating northern lights–all much on display here–invite flights of imagination, wonder, and gratitude. Like the wolf cries that echo in the background, McLeod’s voice draws us into the challenges of primitive farm life. Squirrled away in this late harvest of leaves, are munchies enough for all seasons.
Genre: Nonfiction> Biography
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