Joe Robert Wilkins

Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 2:00pm

Award-winning author Joe Wilkins lost his father at a young age and was raised by his mother and grandfather in the harsh landscape of the Bull Mountains of eastern Montana.  Wilkins, who teaches writing at Waldorf College in Iowa, visits Auntie’s to present his memoir, The Mountains and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big Dry.

Event address: 
Auntie's Bookstore/Mezzanine
402 W. Main Ave.
99201-0214 Spokane
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Books: 
The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on The Big Dry Cover Image

The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on The Big Dry (Hardcover)

By Joe Wilkins
$24.00
Backordered Title, Not on our shelves: Call to check availability.
ISBN: 9781582437941
Published: Counterpoint - February 28th, 2012

The Mountain and the Fathers explores the life of boys and men in the unforgiving, harsh world north of the Bull Mountains of eastern Montana in a drought afflicted area called the Big Dry, a land that chews up old and young alike. Joe Wilkins was born into this world, raised by a young mother and elderly grandfather following the untimely death of his father.