The Deer Camp: Kirkus Review
Kuipers (Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado’s War to Save American Wilderness, 2009, etc.) returns with a frank, personal, and sometimes-painful account of his fractured family.
The author, who has written about environmental issues for decades, tells a grim but ultimately uplifting story about his family, mostly his father, a serial adulterer in his first marriage but […]
The Deer Camp: Publishers Weekly Review
Environmental writer Kuipers (Burning Rainbow Farm) recounts his family’s connection to Michigan’s landscape and its influence on his and his brothers’ relationship with their father. Despite their father’s philandering, domineering attitude and religious zeal, Kuipers and his younger brothers, Brett, who finds solace being alone in the woods, and Joe, an alcoholic with suicidal thoughts, […]