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A woman in her mid-thirties moves from the city to rural Georgia and shares her reflections and discoveries about the natural world around her, from her snake phobia to life without hot water
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In going to Ground, Blackmarr mixes vignettes from her past with reflections on the present to describe the surprising generosity of strangers; life without hot water; her two dogs, one a "lush" and the other a cavebuilder; visits from a jack-o'-lantern-eyed alligator ("To tell the truth, people don't seem to have sympathy for the alligator"); pheasant-hunting with her third ex-husband; her days as a two-stepping cowgirl ("Like a fisherman wears lures on his cap, so does a cowgirl wear hatpins"); a scare by the "toilet-bowl water moccasin"; the significance of owning twenty-six pairs of shoes; a real-life wagon train; and the life and death of her spunky grandmother, MaRe.
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