{"product_id":"north-country-a-pedagogical-almanac-9781625570529","title":"North Country: A Pedagogical Almanac","description":"\u003ci\u003eNorth Country: A Pedagogical Almanac\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir-in-essays about teaching and family life in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The book follows the cycle of seasons in this remote and beautiful place by the waters of Lake Superior during the years in which the author finds a place there. It's also a look at higher education on the razor's edge at a tiny and struggling liberal arts college. Above all, the memoir is about a life lived alongside books and what they might teach us about how to love, parent, mentor, and care for others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarolyn Dekker is the author of \u003cem\u003eNorth Country: A Pedagogical Almanac\u003c\/em\u003e (Black Lawrence Press, 2023). She holds a BA in Biology and English from Williams College and a PhD in literature from the University of Michigan. She lives in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and teaches English at Finlandia University. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in \u003cem\u003eIdentity Theory, Up North Literary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWaccamaw\u003c\/em\u003e. She has published scholarship on Jean Toomer, Leslie Marmon Silko, Willa Cather, and Emily St. John Mandel, and edited Jean Toomer's \u003cem\u003eA Drama of the Southwest\u003c\/em\u003e for the University of New Mexico Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Black Lawrence Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50393328419090,"sku":"9781625570529","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_323baa6c-c8ed-411d-8e5c-548be35ec290.jpg?v=1728988024","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/north-country-a-pedagogical-almanac-9781625570529","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}