Comments on: Review: Impatient With Desire

By: Gabrielle Burton

Gabrielle Burton — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:49:21 +0000

Dear Jacki,
Thank you for your thoughtful review of my novel, Impatient with Desire. I feel that you really “got” what I was trying to do. That’s very gratifying for an author. Impatient with desire IS about “family, politics, love, necessity and survival.” I’m especially pleased that the people became real to you, so that you wanted to know more about them. I wonder if you know my memoir, Searching for Tamsen Donner, published last year (U of Nebraska Press). It’s really the back story to Impatient with Desire, has all the up to date known facts about the Donner Party, plus Tamsen’s 17 extant letters collected and published for the first time. I like Daniel James Brown’s The Indifferent Stars Above very much. Also there’s a terrific blog–Kristin Johnson’s Donner blog.
Guess what? I’m in Ohio this very moment doing readings and visiting my daughter in Columbus.
All best,
Gabrielle Burton
PS There’s a Facebook Impatient with Desire group if you’re interested.

By: Jacki

Jacki — Tue, 18 May 2010 20:58:15 +0000

Ohhh, thanks for the tip. I go crazy for nerdy stuff like PBS and documentaries. I’ll have to find this!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 18 May 2010 20:56:31 +0000

This book is on my TBR list along with Desperate Passage. Not sure if you’d be interested or not but there was recently a program on PBS about the Donner party that was really good. It was American Experience: The Donner Party but I’m not sure if they are still showing it. If not, maybe the library or Netflix might have it.