DOMESTIC TRAVELS
The stories in Watershed have been revised slightly, and are free to read on this site with the kind permission of Beacon Press:
Watershed, travels in time and space
Neon Effects, seeking the neon sublime
Hymn, a tribute
Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah, bricoleurs of the bird world
Hose, one summer day, age six
Plot, an urban community garden
Store, a hero across the street
Maps, to come
Drive, to come
Artesian, to come
Watershed & Other Domestic Travels*
Emily Hiestand
(Beacon Press, 1998, editor: Deanne Urmy)
Reviews
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A “dazzling, seriously funny guide to the art of being human”
"An elucidation of the here and now is one of the author’s greatest gifts: she shows us what it is to 'be.'" — Agni, full review
“Stylistically perfect”
— National Magazine Award for “Hymn,” full review
“The originality of Joyce in Dublin”
— The Cambridge Chronicle, full review
“Comic Genius”
— The Boston Globe, full review
“Irrepressible curiosity and sense of adventure”
— The New York Times Book Review
Awards
Stories from this collection have received The National Magazine Award and The Pushcart Prize; have appeared in The Atlantic, Salon, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Georgia Review, Southwest Review; and are included in numerous anthologies, among them: The Norton Book of Nature Writing, Best of the Pushcart Prize, and This Impermanent Earth.
*This book was originally titled Angela the Upside Down-Girl & Other Domestic Travels; the title was later updated by the author.