Idaho Commission for Libraries

"As the essays in this tabloid will demonstrate, it is, of course, that vague and yet at the same time familiar thing known as place that all of the books in this series have in common."

As part of the theme development for Tough Paradise, the Idaho Humanities Council commissioned several essays that were originally published in a broadside. The essays are now part of the Tough Paradise theme pages.

Read the theme essays here:

Who Is I? by Ron McFarland, Professor of English, University of Idaho
Provides an overview of Tough Paradise and the selected readings.

"The Place of Janet Campbell Hale and Sherman Alexie in American Indian Literature" by Dennis Walsh - Featured books: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Alexie Sherman; Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter by Janet Campbell Hale

"Idaho as a Place of Redemption in the Works of LDS Pioneers, Nelle Portrey Davis and Grace Jordan" by Susan Swetnam

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