Bethany Maile - Anything Will Be Easy After This
Category: Events Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Thursday, Oct 29, 2020 7-8pm
Location
Rediscovered Books - Boise
180 N 8th St
Details
Join Bethany Maile as she discusses her book, Anything Will Be Easy After This, a memoir about growing up in the American West.
Bethany Maile had a mythological American West in mind when she returned to Idaho after dropping out of college in Boston, only to find a farm-town-turned-suburb instead of the Wild West wonderland she remembered. Haunted by what she had so completely misremembered, Maile resolved to investigate her attachment to the western myth, however flawed.
Deciding to engage in a variety of “western” events, Maile trailed rodeo queens, bid on cattle, fired .22s at the gun range, and searched out wild horses. With lively reportage and a sharp wit, she recounts her efforts to understand how the western myth is outdated yet persistent while ultimately exploring the need for story and the risks inherent to that need. Anything Will Be Easy after This traces Maile’s evolution from a girl suckered by a busted-down story to a more knowing woman who discovers a new narrative that enchants without deluding.
