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| Pass-Through Place: Essays on Home, Hope, and Following the Horizon Jenna Brack Paperback: 978-1-956578-91-1 Ebook: 978-1-956578-92-8 Audio: 978-1-956578-93-5 152 pages Retail: $20.00 Also available as an ebook and on audio. Literary Collection/ Essays Biography & Autobiography/ Women TRAVEL / United States / Midwest / West North Central |
EMPORIA, KS: Meadowlark Press announces the April release of Pass-Through Place: Essays on Home,Hope, and Following the Horizon by Hutchinson native Jenna Brack.
Unfolding
as a coming-of-age memoir, twenty essays reveal Kansas as a formative landscape
of resilience and hope. In one essay, Brack’s brother gets her safely back home
to Manhattan from Topeka during an ice storm. In another, she journeys to the
small Kansas town of Chapman to help with tornado clean-up. A common theme in
many of her essays is the Kansas landscape from journeys through the rolling Flint
Hills to the countryside of her family’s farm to the vast Kansas skies.
From
reader, Callie R. Feyen, “Jenna’s writing is evocative and full of hope as she
takes us on a tour of her Kansas—a state that, after reading Pass-Through
Place, readers will want to do more than just pass through. In each
chapter, Jenna takes us on a quest to find what it means to inhabit a place,
and what it means for a place to inhabit you.”
Eighth
Day Books in Wichita will host Brack for a reading and craft talk on Tuesday,
April 21 at 6:30 p.m. Brack will also be a featured artist for Poetry and Prose
Night with Meadowlark Press at Middle Ground Books in Emporia, April 23 at 7:00
p.m.
Meadowlark
Press, established in Emporia, Kansas, in 2014, publishes novels, memoirs, and
children’s books with a focus on Midwest settings and authors, as well as
poetry from coast to coast. The press encourages readers to order books through
area independent bookstores, direct from authors, and meadowlarkbookstore.com.
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Jenna Brack grew up in central Kansas and lived in the Midwest for over thirty-five years before moving abroad. Her essays and poetry have been featured in publications such as Every Day Poems, The Sunlight Press, Coffee + Crumbs, 105 Meadowlark Reader, and others. A former educator and college instructor, Jenna now encourages other writers through editing and coaching. She holds an MA in English from Kansas State University and enjoys exploring the goodness of every place alongside her husband and two children. Pass-Through Place is her first book.
