LAKE COUNTRY: A Series of Journeys ...

LAKE COUNTRY: A Series of Journeys by Kathleen Stocking (University of Michigan Press: 229 pp., paperback original). Stocking explores Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in these intimate accounts of wandering the shores of the Great Lakes, listening to debates over development and following roads no longer traveled. After leaving a lonely island in Lake Huron, she realizes, “The thought of being home, feeding the animals, calling my neighbors, getting Gaia ready for school in the morning, seems comforting, like a lamp in a window on a dark night.” Her agreeable prose falters when she stumbles into PC postures.