Breaking Clean - Softcover

"Breathtaking. . . . Blunt's writing is visceral, yet never without humor and a raw, fierce honesty." -The Chicago Tribune

"[An] astonishing literary debut, a dramatic and heartbreaking memoir . . . honed from difficult circumstances and crackling with energy long pent up . . . A fascinating, ferocious coming of age." -Elle

"Unflinching. . . . A sense of mourning underlies [Blunt's] account, and she honors the land that she still loves by making us intimate with its smallest details." -The New Yorker

"A beautifully written memoir that is a meditation on how land and her life will always be intertwined . . . Blunt's life has furnished her with the kind of strength most of us can only envy." -The San Francisco Chronicle

"Staunch and unblinking, with sentences as strong and upright as well-tended fenceposts. A valuable addition to the literature of place and the literature of passage." -The Washington Post

"Riveting . . . This masterful debut is utterly strange, suspenseful and surprising-a story whose threads connecting past and present are as transparent as cobwebs but as strong as barbed wire." -Time Out New York

"In this assured and moving memoir, Blunt chronicles the wars-and-all realities of modern ranch life. . . . Remarkable." -Outside

"Scarily good-so right on, so focused, so in-your-face that you have to take the book slowly to cushion the blow." -National Geographic Adventure

In a poetic memoir, the author describes her life in the contemporary American West and the skills she developed to survive in a man's world as she details her experiences with blizzards, devastating prairie fires, extreme isolation, more in the harsh Western landscape. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.