No Place: A Desert Pilgrimage

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ISBN 978-1-941106-19-8 | List $24.99

The second book in the Place trilogy picks up during the cultural upheaval of the late '60s. A young Minnesota farm girl gets married and joins a hippie commune in the high desert of New Mexico. Margie's spiritual pilgrimage wound its way through doubts, failures, broken relationships, and the wounds of fundamentalism. Full of moments both amusing and absurd, her path ultimately led to the hard question: Was Christianity worth living for and what would that look like? It was a journey that sometimes led through no place she wanted to stay.

There are memoirs that are so interesting and well-written that one just enjoys spending time within the story they tell. There are others where the author has learned much, perhaps the hard way, and we are wise to listen in, absorbing her hard-won truths. And there are those that are sheer testimony, giving glory to God who seems the real actor in the story’s drama. It is rare when a memoir is all three, and Margie Haack’s No Place is thankfully one of these rare treats that is fun to read, offers profound wisdom, and through which we learn much about the God who is there.

—Byron Borger, co-founder of Hearts & Minds Bookstore

When I read Margie’s first book, The Exact Place, I reveled in her Annie Dillard-caliber storytelling. I was moved by the unbelievable empathy, wit and clear-sightedness with which she regarded her younger self. It felt like greed to hope that she would plumb those depths again someday and share stories and insight for the station of life I am now in—marriage and parenting. Margie’s courage, hilarity and honesty in No Place are a strong and gentle hand to hold for the rest of us who are stumbling along as we learn to walk by faith.

—Katy Bowser, author of Now I Lay me Down to Fight

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