In the Kingdom of Men (41 page)

“Boredom is the desire for desires” is a paraphrase from Leo Tolstoy’s
Anna Karenina
.

Kim Barnes is the author of two memoirs and two previous novels, including
A Country Called Home
, which received the 2009 PEN Center USA Literary Award in fiction and was named a best book of 2008 by
The Washington Post
, the
Kansas City Star
, and
The Oregonian
. She is the recipient of the PEN/Jerard Fund Award for an emerging woman writer of nonfiction, and her first memoir,
In the Wilderness
, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has appeared in a number of publications and anthologies, including
The New York Times; MORE
magazine;
O
,
The Oprah Magazine
;
Good Housekeeping
;
Fourth Genre
;
The Georgia Review
;
Shenandoah
; and the Pushcart Prize anthology. Barnes is a professor of writing at the University of Idaho and lives with her husband, the poet Robert Wrigley, on Moscow Mountain.

ALSO BY KIM BARNES

FICTION

A Country Called Home
Finding Caruso

NONFICTION

In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country
Hungry for the World: A Memoir