From the author of the critically acclaimed In the Wilderness,
comes a riveting new narrative of self-discovery and personal
triumph. Hungry for the World is the story of how an intelligent
and passionate young woman, yearning for an understanding of the
world beyond her insular family life, found her way.
On the day of her 1976 high school graduation in Lewiston, Idaho,
Kim Barnes decided she could no longer abide the patriarchal
domination of family and church. After a disagreement with her
father–a logger and fervent adherent to the Pentecostal Christian
faith–she gathered her few belongings and struck out on her own.
She had no skills and no funds, but she had the courage and
psychological sturdiness to make her way, and to eventually survive
the influence of a man whose dominance was of a different and more
menacing sort. Hungry for the World is a classic story of the
search for knowledge and its consequences, both dire and
beautiful.