The Long Fields
Essays of Home and Comfort
- 2023 INDIES Finalist
- Finalist, Autobiography & Memoir (Adult Nonfiction)
Anne-Marie Oomen’s sixth essay collection "The Long Fields" celebrates rural life as she experienced it growing up on a farm and then into an adulthood marked by both wandering and homing. Oomen builds a world that offers the vitality of living country. At its heart, "The Long Fields" voices the best of Midwestern rural living: a relationship to land, stewarding a place, and honoring the sacred quotidian.
