Hungry for the world

by Kim Barnes

"On the day of Kim Barnes's 1976 high school graduation in Lewiston, Idaho, after a disagreement with her father - a logger by lifelong trade, and a fervent adherent of the Pentecostal Christian faith in which Kim had been raised - gathered her few belongings and struck out on her own. Alone for the first time, she sought to make a life for herself - without skills, without funds, with barely a shred of knowledge of the world outside the insulated confines of her family.". "Hungry for the World is the story of how an intelligent and passionate young woman, thirsting for experience of what...

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