My book's one-year anniversary!

Giveaway for "Uprooted" + postcards from Oxford

Grandpa Dad and Grandma Mom

Hey friends,

My book is officially one year old! Thank you to all of you who have read it and reached out—who have shared your own stories of homesickness or love of place, who are transplants, returners, and stickers, wherever you’re living. Uprooted now out in paperback, if you think you’d like to order a copy.

As a thank you to all of you who’ve read the book and/or subscribed to Granola, I’d love to send you a hardback copy of the book. Because of the shipping costs to send a signed book from the UK, I cannot send you a signed copy (will aim to do that for the 2nd anniversary!)—but my workaround is that I’d love to send three of you a copy of the book and a postcard from Oxford, expressing my gratitude and thanks.

If you’d like a book and postcard, share something you love about the place where you live—via email, comment, or social media (make sure to tag me)!

Twitter: @gracyolmstead
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I’ll collect names and share the three winners on Monday (March 21).

Here are some reviews of Uprooted that were written last year—sharing them so that you can read others’ thoughts on these themes, surrounding place, home, boomers vs. stickers, agriculture, and more!

• Serena Sigillito, National Review: “Recovering Our Roots”

• Christie Purifoy, Christianity Today: “What Happens in Left-Behind Places Doesn’t Stay in Left-Behind Places”

• Nathan Beacom, America Magazine: “Making A Home In a Time of Alienation”

• Kyle Sammin, The Washington Examiner: “The Roots We’ve Lost”

• Bonnie Kristian, Christianity Today: “Act as if You Are Staying in a Community Forever—Even When You’re Not”

• Bill Kauffman, Modern Age: “Can You Go Home Again?”

• Brett McCracken, The Gospel Coalition: “Log Off Instagram. Embrace Your Place.”

• Russell Arben Fox, The Front Porch Republic: “Grace Olmstead’s Uprooted Idaho, And My Own”

And some interviews I did with various people, talking about the book and its themes:

• Tessa Carman, Mere Orthodoxy: “Becoming A Perennial”

• Matt Stewart, The Front Porch Republic: “On Uprooted, Place, Idaho, and Prairie Lupines”

• Chuck Marohn, The Strong Towns Podcast: “The Legacy—and the Future—of the Places We’ve Left Behind”

• Elizabeth Oldfield, The Sacred Podcast: “On rootedness, conservatism and what a consistent life ethic looks like”

• David Kern, Forma Magazine: “On Rootlessness, Small Towns, and City People”

• Charlie Camosy, Crux: “Is ‘rootedness’ an answer to the throwaway society?”

• Marcia Franklin, Idaho Public Television, on “The 180”