Reviving Artemis – Author-led Book Discussion
Delve into themes of conservation, reciprocity, aging, empowerment, spirituality, and more, as Vermont author Deborah Lee Luskin leads us in a discussion about her memoir, Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress.
Copies of the book are available to borrow from the library. Stop by, call 802-785-4361 or email librarian@thetfordlibrary.org to request one!
Deborah will also have copies of her novel, Into the Wilderness, for sale following the presentation.
About Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress
Reviving Artemis is the unlikely story of a woman raised in mid-twentieth-century suburbia who lived in New York City as a
young adult and moved to Vermont in 1984. For more than thirty years, she raised domestic livestock, kept bees, and cultivated fruits and vegetables while teaching literature and telling stories. But when she turned sixty, something shifted. Luskin was overtaken by a primal urge to step out of the garden, off the blazed trails, and into untracked forest by learning to hunt deer.
Deeply personal, lyrically told, and funny, Reviving Artemis reveals Luskin’s ambivalence about guns and her fear of entering the forest alone in the dark.
She persisted, using her literary acumen to read the forest and, as thoughtfully as she hunts for words, to hunt for deer. With the stories of Artemis, goddess of the hunt, childbirth, and wild nature to inspire her, Luskin became a huntress, determined to age fiercely and compelled to tell this story of finding her place in the natural world.