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When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice -- Terry Tempest Williams, Paperback Fiction - Men's Adventure Childhood tells the story ofNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year "Brilliant, meditative, and full of surprises, wisdom, and wonder." Ann Lamott, author of Imperfect Birds "I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won't look at them until after I'm gone." This is what Terry Tempest Williams's mother, the matriarch of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah, told her a week before she died. It was a shock to Williams to discover that her