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UPCOMING

Sept. 11: Deer Lodge, MT – Browsing Bison Books, 515 Main Street, reading and signing The Deer Camp, 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 12: Missoula, MT – Montana Book Festival panel, “The Landscape of Family” with Dean Kuipers, David Axelrod and Sophia Shalmiyev, Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St., 1 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.

Oct. 19: Madison, WI – Wisconsin Book Festival, Wisconsin Historical Museum, 30 N. Carroll St., reading and discussing The Deer Camp, 3 p.m.

Oct. 26: Green Spring, WI – Arcadia Books, 102 E. Jefferson St., in dialogue with Gavin Van Horn of the Center for Humans and Nature and author of the wonderful book, The Way of Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wild, 3 p.m.

PAST

May 15: Los Angeles, CA – Chevalier’s Books, 126 N. Larchmont Blvd, book launch for The Deer Camp in conversation with Joe Donnelly, 7 pm.

May 17: Pasadena, CA – Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., reading/signing 7 p.m.

May 23: Brooklyn, NY – Marlow & Sons, 81 Broadway, cocktails by chef Andrew Tarlow inspired by A Garden Can Be Anywhere, both Dean Kuipers and Lauri Kranz signing, 5-7 p.m.

May 24: Hudson, NY – Time and Space, Ltd., 434 Columbia St., dinner 6:15 p.m.; Dean Kuipers and Lauri Kranz discussing The Deer Camp and A Garden Can Be Anywhere, 7 p.m.

May 30: Boise, ID – The Rediscovered Bookshop, 180 N. 8th Street, in partnership with Selway Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation, reading/signing 7 p.m.

May 31: Sun Valley, ID – The Community Library, 415 Spruce Ave., Ketchum, in collaboration with Chapter One Book Store, 5 p.m.

June 4: Detroit, MI – Pages Bookshop, 19560 Grand River Avenue, reading/signing 6:00 p.m.

June 5: St. Joseph, MI – Forever Books, 312 State Street, reading/signing 6:30 p.m.

June 6: Kalamazoo, MI – this is a bookstore / Bookbug, 3019 Oakland Dr., reading/signing 6:30 p.m.

June 7: Ann Arbor, MI – Literati Bookstore, 124 E. Washington St., reading/signing 7 p.m.

June 8: Williamston, MI – Capital Area District Libraries, 3845 Vanneter Road, Williamston. Schuler Books of Okemos on site with books for sale. Reading/signing 1 p.m.

June 10: Los Angeles, CA – Live broadcast of “Write About Now” Podcast with Jonathan Small, with studio audience at Rita House, 5971 West 3rd Street, doors 6:30

June 27: Grand Rapids, MI – Schuler Books, 2660 28th Street S.E., Grand Rapids, reading/signing 7 p.m.

June 28: Chicago, IL – City Lit Books, 2523 N. Kedzie Blvd., in conversation with The Way of Coyote author Gavin Van Horn, 6:30 p.m.

August 2: Traverse City, MI – Horizon Books, 243 E. Front St., coinciding with the Traverse City Film Festival, signing 4-6 p.m.

August 24-27: Greenough, MT – Beargrass Writing Retreat, E Bar L Ranch. Visiting writer along with Chris Dombrowski, Tommy Orange, Annick Smith, Jack Driscoll and others.

My Latest Book

THE DEER CAMP: A Memoir of a Father, a Family, and the Land that Healed Them

Some families have to dig hard to find the love that holds them together. Some have to grow it out of the ground. THE DEER CAMP: A Memoir of a Father, a Family, and the Land that Healed Them is the true story of the author’s family and the power of nature.

Bruce Kuipers was good at hunting, fishing and working, but not at much else that makes a real father or husband. Conflicted, angry, and a serial cheater, he destroyed his relationship with his wife, Nancy, and alienated his three sons—journalist Dean, woodsman Brett, and troubled yet brilliant fisherman Joe. He distrusted people and clung to rural America as a place to hide.

So when Bruce purchased a 100-acre hunting property as a way to reconnect with his sons, they resisted. The land was the perfect bait, but none of them knew how to be together as a family. Conflicts arose over whether the land – an old farm that had been degraded and reduced to a few stands of pine and blowing sand – should be left alone or be actively restored. After a decade-long impasse, Bruce acquiesced, and his sons proceeded with their restoration plan. What happened next was a miracle of nature.

Dean Kuipers weaves a beautiful and surprising story about the restorative power of land and of his own family, which so desperately needed healing. Heartwarming and profound, THE DEER CAMP: A Memoir of a Father, a Family, and the Land that Healed Them is the perfect story of fathers, sons, and the beauty and magic of the natural world.