The Exact Place: A Search for Father

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ISBN 978-1-941106-18-1 | List $24.99

The first book in the Place trilogy begins with a large family crowded into a three-room farmhouse with no running water on swampland barely reclaimed from the Minnesota wilderness. It was a raw place where temperatures of 40 below could freeze a chickencoop full of hens. Margie's roots were tangled with the loss of her father and the desire to win her step-father's love. At the same time, a deep-rooted sense of purpose and place was awakening in her. The Exact Place is a beautifully written reflection on real life that is both heartbreaking and funny, with a keen eye for detail that gently unmasks the truth.

NOTE: This is a revised second edition of The Exact Place with a new foreword and a new epilogue.

I’ve spent many good hours around Margie and her husband’s open table, but here is a different sort of hospitality, one no less welcoming for being in print: an open life, displayed in stories that are full of sharp wit and graceful intelligence.

—Wesley Hill, author of Washed and Waiting

One of the highest compliments you can give an author is to feel a kind of sadness upon reaching the end of their book. This is the way I felt upon coming to the end of Margie Haack’s deeply moving, wise, and masterfully told memoir of her childhood, The Exact Place. I will read it again. I have long considered Margie to be one of my favorite writers, but after reading this book, she has moved onto my list of most beloved authors. You will see, feel, and think, laugh out loud and want to cry, sometimes all on the same page.

—Andi Ashworth, author of Real Love for Real Life: The Art and Work of Caring

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