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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Raised by Ferns

Raised by Ferns

Zeller, Maya Jewell

Paperback

Letters & EssaysWriting InstructionGeneral Parenting

Publisher Price: $23.95

ISBN10: 1736755870
ISBN13: 9781736755877
Publisher: Porphyry Press
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Born in a Pacific Northwest gas station to itinerant, countercultural parents, Maya Jewell Zeller came of age in a landscape where poverty, wildness, and self-reliance intertwined. Raised by Ferns traces the path of a feral girl craving both freedom and safety to a middle-class adult life shaped by academia, motherhood, and uneasy privilege. Refusing tired narratives of bootstrap triumph, Zeller instead renders rural America with intimate complexity. She writes with sharp lyricism and attention about what it means to live between worlds-material scarcity and cultural wealth, inherited distrust and institutional legitimacy. From leaking rentals to library stacks, from ferns and fire codes to scholarship and marital strife, Zeller's life resists easy packaging yet finds form in layered essays that explore the complicated pursuit of belonging. Raised by Ferns offers a vital, compelling new take on the forces that shape identity and the choices that define home. It is a story of survival, but more importantly, of questioning for what-and who-it is worth surviving for.

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