Sara Mansfield Taber



My Works

BREAD OF THREE RIVERS: THE STORY OF A FRENCH LOAF
Beacon Press, 2001.
The stories of the baker, wheat farmer, water technicians, sea salt farmers, and yeast cultivators whose labor contributes to the creation of a delicious French village loaf.

"Rainlight"
UNROOTED CHILDHOODS, Intercultural Press, 2004.
A memoir of the new-found delights of an American girl plunked down in The Netherlands.

DUSK ON THE CAMPO: A JOURNEY IN PATAGONIA
Henry Holt, 1991.
An intimate portrait of the lives of the sheep ranchers of Patagonia and their forbidding land.

OF MANY LANDS:JOURNAL OF A TRAVELING CHILDHOOD
Foreign Service Youth Foundation, 1997.
A memoir and writing workbook for people raised abroad.


"Rowing to Leiden"
SOUTHWEST REVIEW, Volume 87, Numbers 2&3, 2002.
A story of the push-and-pull at the heart of the mother-daughter relationship.

"Longing for America: Notes from a Traveling Childhood"
NOTES FROM A TRAVELING CHILDHOOD, Foreign Service Youth Foundation, 1994.
Thoughts on the appetite for the elixir of other lands--and the longing for home--that inhabits the heart of a child raised across seas.

"Prejudice Abroad: Kids and Cashmere in Paris"
Essay produced by MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO, 2002.
A comment on the mix of ethnocentrism and passion that arises during travel abroad.

"Life and Death in Patagonia: Encounters Along the Road"
ASCENT, Vol. 27(2), Winter 2003.
Tales of wild joy and sorrow from a journey through some of the bleakest land on earth.

"The Letter on the Cattlegate: A Paean to Neediness"
COMMON BOUNDARY MAGAZINE, Nov/Dec 1997, and CATHOLIC DIGEST, Fall 1998.
An essay about human need and how it brings us all together.



Selected Works

Essay
"Longing for America: Notes from a Traveling Childhood"
"An eloquent essay." -New York Times
Literary Journalism
BREAD OF THREE RIVERS: THE STORY OF A FRENCH LOAF
"...One of the most compelling, knowledgeable, and graceful books about the French soul that has ever been written by an American." -Richard Goodman, author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France
DUSK ON THE CAMPO: A JOURNEY IN PATAGONIA
"The stories remain...etched in the reader's mind, etched as if by the harsh wind of Patagonia itself. Extraordinarily fine writing." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Memoir
"Rainlight"
"A poignant chronicle of the diaspora of the heart--and the heart's quest and longing for that universal place called home." Wall Street Journal



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