Kim BARNES ... A Country Called Home (Knopf Doubleday, 2008)

KIM BARNES is a Moscow, Idaho-based novelist and memoirist who teaches writing at the University of Idaho. She is the author of the novel, Finding Caruso, and two memoirs, In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country—a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction—and Hungry for the World. Barnes’s second novel, A Country Called Home, was published in 2008 and has just come out in paperback.