A deeply spiritual deeply moving book about life on the Great Plains by the New York Times-bestselling author of The Cloister Walk (The New York Times Book Review). Kathleen Norris invites readers to experience rich moments of prayer and presence in Dakota a timeless tribute to a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate and sublime harsh and forgiving steeped in history and myth. In thoughtful discerning prose she explores how we come to inhabit the world we see and how that world also inhabits us. Her voice is a steady assurance that we can and do chart our spiritual geography wherever we go.