“What a lovely gift to the world!”
Donna Gold, Editor, COA Magazine, College of the Atlantic
“Sometimes highly creative people have an unconscious awareness that their destiny is to die young. A wisdom can emerge that mysteriously directs the artist’s path. Kirsten Stockman’s whole short life was filled with gratitude and courage. She wrote a magnificent story about loving life and leaving it too soon.”
Vicki Pollard has offered traditional acupuncture in Blue Hill, Maine since 1979. Vicki shared her skills, knowledge, wisdom, and compassion with Kirsten and her family during the last two years of Kirsten’s life.
“I read from your novel each morning at breakfast, nibbling at the nourishment that I felt in the slow reveal of landscape and its people, developing into a kind of heartscape (heartland’s landscape). I grew to care for each character, and they became my familiars; I greeted each day with a quiet return to that town at the heart of the country, letting their stories unfold. What a gift you have for drawing your reader into that place, that people, into the heartscape of America.”
Ron Beard, President, Jesup Memorial Library Board of Directors; Emeritus Extension Professor, University of Maine Cooperative Extension; from his 2003 letter to Kirsten Stockman
“In Remembered Earth I see and smell and feel the dirt of Kansas coursing through my own fingers and understand more completely how that dirt gives life and depth to Stockman’s Anna Garland as a character. At the same time, Stockman’s words paint a remarkable and authentic portrait of an often overlooked geography and cultural landscape.”
Darron Collins, President, College of the Atlantic
“This is an astonishingly lovely and well-written book, and I am saddened that there will never be another.”
Jennifer Caven, literary fiction editor at Maine Authors Publishing