Susan Wittig Albert

Together, Alone

This is a beautifully told tale from an author who knows her way around word and story, and who has the kind of questing intellect that gives her tales a solid footing. It's a hymn to the strength, revelations, and comfort we can find in knowing a place and its inhabitants well enough to call it home. —Susan J. Tweit, author of Walking Nature Home: A Life's Journey

Teacher, gardener, and bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert returns with her first nonfiction narrative, Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place (University of Texas Press, September 2009).

In this beautifully written memoir, Susan Albert describes her experiences of place, marriage, and separateness while creating a home in the Texas Hill Country with her husband and writing partner, Bill Albert. The book explores questions central to every marriage: how we become truly rooted and grounded in the places we call home; and how two partners can fully commit to each other and still maintain their separate identities.

Filled with thought-provoking meditations on right livelihood, ethical eating, and fully knowing our place—its geological and human past, as well as its present—Together, Alone shows us what it means to be married to a person and a place, and at the same time acknowledge the need for separation and solitude.